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SESQUIDECENNIAL RECORD 



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Class of 1885 



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



JANUARY, 1901 



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Please send any corrections or additional information about 
yourself, or any classmate, at once, to H. D. Thompson, Secre- 
tary, 80 University Place, Princeton, N. J. 



THE SESQUIDECENNIAL REUNION 
AND RECORD OF '8^. 



The 15th year reunion of the Class of '85 was held in Prince- 
ton, June 8 to 13, 1900. Contributions to defray expenses were 
received from Baker, Barr, Bayard, Bedle, Blye, Brick enstein, 
Brown, Bryan, Buckelew, Burger, Chapin, Cleveland, Coney, 
Conner, Dawes, John R. Dickey, Edwards, Fisher, Gaither, Gam- 
ble, Greene, Hall, Chas. D. Halsey, Harriman, Hayes, Hughes, 
Jackson, Knox, McAlpin, McFerran, Wm. B. Mclllvaine, Miles, 
Murray, Myers, Penick, Pershing, Scott, Scribner, Shea, A. C. 
Smith, Spence, Thompson, Urquhart, Wanamaker, Weir, Wil- 
bur, Wilson, Wood, Wylie. Those who registered were : Baker, 
Barr, Bayard, Brickenstein, Brown, Buckelew, Burger, Chapin, 
Cleveland, Coney, Conner, Dawes, John R. Dickey, Edwards, 
Fisher, Gaither, Gamble, Hayes, Jackson, Kelley, Knox, McAl- 
pin, W. B. Mcllvaine, Miles, Murray, Penick, Pershing, Shea, 
Spence, Thompson, Wilbur, Wilson, Wood, and Wylie. The 
house at 14 Dickinson Street, of 17 rooms, wa3 obtained as head- 
quarters. In the yard, a tent 30 feet wide and 50 feet long was 
erected, with platform and piano. Here it was passably cool at 
all times. Two other houses were rented for the sleeping ac- 
commodations, so that 37 beds were at the disposal of the mem- 
bers of the Class. 

At the formal meeting of the Class on the evening of June 
11th it was : 

Resolved, That the Class express its appreciation of Rod 
Wanamaker's action in furnishing two '85 flags and two '85 



banners, and in donating one-half of the band for Saturday, 
June 9. Universal regret was expressed that he was unable to 
be present. 

Resolved, That the Class express its appreciation of Spence's 
action in furnishing the band for Monday, June 11. Universal 
regret was expressed that he was unable to return to Princeton 
on Monday. 

It was voted that all matters relating to the Class be left to the 
officers of the Class. The officers met and formed an Executive 
Committee of the Class with the following members : John B. 
Miles, President, Harlan Cleveland, D. H. McAlpin, Jr., William 
M. Hall, Jr., Edmund Wilson, H. D. Thompson, Secretary. 

Later the President appointed an auditing committee which 
reported as follows : 

We have examined the accounts and vouchers of H. D. 
Thompson as Secretary of the Class of '85 from April 5, 1897, 
through June 19, 1900, and find the same correct. 

(Signed) J. Woods Brown, 
(Signed) John R. Dickey. 

On the evening of Friday, June 8th, the members of the 
Class began to arrive in Princeton, and until Wednesday, 13th, 
the Class and their invited guests were at the headquarters, 
except when events of importance were scheduled for other 
places. On Saturday the Class marched in a body behind our 
band to the Yale game. After the Yale game the Class photo- 
graph was taken on the steps of North College (to be obtained 
from R. H. Rose & Son, Princeton, N. J., for $1.25). On Mon- 
day the Class band gave a concert for '85 on the front campus, 
and led the Class to the Brokaw tank, where the sesquidecennial 
bath was taken. In the evening the Class Supper, at which no 
guests were present, was held. On Tuesday the Class proceeded 
to the Alumni Dinner, and in the evening, as there was a shower 
for an hour, preventing an exodus from the tent, a quartet ren- 



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dered vocal and instrumental selections. On Wednesday after- 
noon, after proceeding to the Harvard game, the reunion was 
declared adjourned. Without exception, each man present de- 
clared this the most successful reunion which the Class has ever 
held. 

Probably the most enjoyable period of the whole reunion 
was the Class Supper on Monday night, at which every man 
present spoke. In this way much information about men in 
the Class was gathered. Since that time three letters were sent 
to all men whose addresses were known and who had not been 
heard from. The questions asked were : 

1. Permanent address and present occupation. 

2. Places of residence since leaving Princeton ; extent of 
travels at home and abroad. 

3. Occupation during same period. 

4. If married, date and place of marriage ; if you have chil- 
dren, name and date of birth of each. 

5. Have you taken any active part in politics, or been a can- 
didate for, or occupied any political office ? 

6. Positions of honor or trust, other than political, which 
you have occupied. 

7. Information about '85 men whom you habitually or occa- 
sionally see. 

8. Suggestions regarding our next reunion. 

From these sources the information on the following pages 
was obtained. All this is arranged alphabetically, with the ex- 
ception of the President's opening remarks. 

JOHN B. MILES, 

Frank C. Koberts & Co., Civil Engineers, 
Eeal Estate Trust Building, S. E. Corner Broad and Chest- 
nut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 
I think we have been enjoying this reunion ; I have for one. A 
very few remarks will not be inopportune (inopportune is a good 



word), and I wish to say right here, as the President of the Class 
and one of the executive officers, that whatever success has been in 
this reunion is due entirely to the gentleman on my left, Mr. H. 
D. Thompson. 

Last fall a special train was on its way up from Philadelphia 
to the football game at New Haven, and on that same train were 
Mr. John Eogers Dickey, J. Woods Brown and myself. On the 
steamer Maryland, Mr. Thompson accosted us. As we were going 
under the Brooklyn Bridge this gentleman accosted us and pro- 
posed that we have a reunion, and he outlined the scheme as to 
what we should do, and we very quietly acted on his suggestion, 
and we have never done anything since. The result you sec 
before you. 

We don't want to have any set speeches to-night, but I will tell 
you what we would like to have, and that is a very simple experi- 
ence meeting. I don't think all of us know what our classmates 
have been doing during the last fifteen years, and it will be a good 
plan if each one, as his name is called, will tell us what he has 
done since he left college, and who he has done, and how he did it. 
Well, the lawyers will say "whom they have done." The lawyers 
are allowed fifteen minutes. In addition, as the roll is called, 
we shall be glad to receive information concerning the absent 
from those present who are in a position to enlighten us. 

I have not outlined in preparation my own experience for the 
last fifteen years at all. I am going to tell you the famous people 
I have met in the last fifteen years, including Mr. Brown. There 
are two things I would like to speak of. In the first place, we are 
indebted to Eod Wanamaker for the banners and the flags. Rod 
volunteered to furnish us with a flag and a banner and he had two 
made. The shade of orange did not suit him and he had two 
others made. He has been very much interested in this thing 
from the beginning, but the death of his wife prevented his being 
here; nothing else would have kept him away. He looked for- 



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ward to this reunion with the expectation of enjoying it very thor- 
oughly. In addition to that, he has practically given us one-half 
the cost of our band for Saturday, which added a great deal to our 
pleasure on our first day. 

I also want to say that Mr. Charles E. Spence, who was with us 
on Saturday when we had some slight bickering with the Yale 
team, offered to furnish the band for Monday, or any day we 
might select, and I think it adds a great deal to our pleasure. We 
have all (all of us who are here and some others who are not here) 
contributed our share to the reunion this year, and we feel thank- 
ful to all as a class, but I simply mention these two because they 
have done things which have attracted particular attention. 

I am going to give a slight resume of my life for the benefit of 
the police courts. 

After leaving college, I worked — I think for two dollars a 
week — for my brother, in Peoria, 111. He was in the grain 
business. He didn't like my figuring out weights with loga- 
rithms, grain weights, etc. I did that for about two weeks and 
then I got a position on the Central Eailroad of Iowa, a small 
road that didn't pay its bills. I worked for them three months 
putting up a bridge across the Mississippi. We looked every week 
for the pay-car, and I worked five weeks and it didn't come. My 
uncle got me a position with the Pennsylvania Eailroad, and I 
left the Central Eailroad of Iowa — much to their chagrin — and 
they didn't pay me, and I went on to the Pennsylvania Eailroad, 
and they sent me down as a plain, everyday terrier, or chain man, 
on survey on the Long Beach Eailroad, from Mannahawken to 
Beach Haven. After I had been there some time in straitened 
circumstances, I got a check from the Central Eailroad of Iowa, 
five months late. I worked one year on that survey, and the 
construction of the road across Barnegat Bay. I lived on the 
beach part of the time, and after that, in '86, I was sent to Har- 
risburg on surveys for double track; stayed there a few months, 



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and then, I am glad to say, at Professor McMillan's recommenda- 
tion, I was transferred to the office of the chief engineer in the 
bridge department. Stayed there three years; did fairly well. 
Frank Eoberts, '83, whom yon all know, starting his engineering 
business, asked me to go out to Pittsbnrg to take charge of the 
construction of a couple of blast furnaces at McKeesport, which 
I did. That was in '89. I was on the Pennsylvania Eailroad 
from '85 until '89. Then I entered Eoberts' employ in '89, in 
blast furnace work principally, and in '93 I went into partner- 
ship with him, a connection which still holds. 

I am glad to say our business at present is quite prosperous and 
the outlook is promising. '93 to 1900 is seven years. That 
brings me up to date, I think. 

Now we will call the roll. Do not take this speech as a model. 

In answer to fixed questions : 

1. Permanent address, Eeal Estate Trust Building, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. Occupation, junior partner in firm of Frank C. Eob- 
erts & Co., civil engineers. 

2. Places of residence since 1885. My remarks at the supper 
cover this ground pretty well. In addition I spent eight months, 
in '91, at Eadford, Va., in charge of construction of a blast fur- 
nace and pipe foundry, and one year at Elyria, Ohio, in charge 
of two -blast furnaces that were built by the Lorain Steel 
Company. This was the year '98-99. The remainder of my time 
has been spent at Philadelphia. 

3. Occupation, civil engineer. Our business also requires a 
considerable knowledge of mechanical engineering. 

4. Not married, nor engaged. 

(N. B. August 1, 1900, was date on which Miles wrote this. 
He was married in Chicago on January 8, 1901, to Miss Marian 
Carpenter. ) 

5. I have never taken an active part in politics. 

6. I have served on the Board of Governors of the University 



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Club of Philadelphia; also as Treasurer, but have no other 
honors. 

7. The men whom I see frequently will no doubt answer for 
themselves. 

8. I would suggest another reunion in three years on the same 
lines as that of last June. 

CLARENCE J. ALLEN, t~Ce{\ 

180 Biddle Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Replying to the recent request for a brief history of my young 
life, I will try to answer your questions and to get in all the things 
for which you ask. 

1. My permanent address is 180 Biddle street (business), and 
my occupation is conducting real estate and lumber business. 

2. Since leaving Princeton I lived for a few months at Chest- 
nut Hill, Pa. ; then four years at Altoona, Pa., in the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad motive power department. In February, 1887, I 
moved to Milwaukee and took the position of Assistant Engineer 
of Tests on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, 
remaining there until February, 1889. 

Since leaving Princeton my travels have not been extensive and 
have been confined entirely to this country. I have been as far 
west or northwest as Kenmare, N. D., and as far south as Bir- 
mingham, Ala. 

3. My occupations during the period since leaving college have 
been : A four years' apprenticeship in the Altoona shops of the 
P. R. R. ; two years as Assistant Engineer of Tests of the C. M. 
& St. P. Ry. Since February, 1889, 1 have been interested in Mil- 
waukee real estate and in lumber and timber lands in Wolfe, 
Breathitt, and Lee counties, Ky. 

4. I was married in Milwaukee, December 18, 1888, to Miss 
Elizabeth Seymour Steele. We have one son, Francis Olcott 
Allen, 3d, born September 19, 1889. 



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5. I have never taken any active part in politics, nor been a 
candidate for, nor occupied any political office. 

6. In answering this question, I am somewhat in doubt how to 
do it properly. I have been Secretary and Treasurer of the At- 
water & Allen Land and Lumber Company, of the Center Lumber 
Company, of the Jackson Saw-mill Company, Secretary of the 
Calumet Land Company and of the Lake Avenue Company, and 
a director in each of them. 

7. I see very little of any '85 men. There are no members of 
the class here, and the only ones that I meet are those whom I see 
in Philadelphia occasionally, and they are too well known to you 
for me to be able to give them away — John B. Miles, J. R. Dickey 
and J. Woods Brown. Sometimes I see others. 

8. My only suggestion about the next reunion is to have it so 
that I may attend, but I cannot supply the details necessary to 
that end. 

I hope that these three hundred words will give you what you 
want. I think of nothing of interest beyond the above, and am 
sorry that I have not something more stirring to contribute. 

4r~W. ANDERSON. f^Q , L ' 

Is said to bea professor in Japan. 

C. A. ARTHUR, 

Care of Brown, Shipley & Co., 

London. 
He lives in Europe. His marriage was reported in the news- 
papers during the summer of 1900. 

ALFRED T. BAKER, 
A. T. Baker & Co., 

Manufacturers of Mohair Plushes, Corduroys, Cotton Vel- 
vets and Upholstery Goods, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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1. Permanent address, Kittenhouse Club, Philadelphia. 

2. Has resided in Philadelphia since leaving Princeton. 

3. During this time he has been head of firm of A. T. Baker 
& Co., Manayunk, Pa. 

4. Married April 22, 1889, Trinity Church, Philadelphia- 
Two children, both boys : Alfred Thornton Baker, Jr., born June 
12, 1890 ; Hobard Amory Hare Baker, born January 15, 1892. 

5. Has taken no active part in politics. 

6. Is Trustee to an estate. 

At the supper in June Miles said : 

" In regard to Baker, immediately after graduating he worked 
hard for a position. We all used to see Baker for the first two or 
three years, with his finger nails all stained with the dyes. He 
used to take his pail with his lunch and go up to Dolan's dye 
works to learn the science of dyeing various kinds of goods ; and 
after that experience of several years, he started the business of 
manufacturing plush, Mohair plush principally. He has been 
very successful. Quite prominent in the various clubs in Phila- 
delphia, and is a pretty good sport." 

/ JOHN W. BAEE, Jr., 

Fidelity Trust and Safety Vault Co., 
Louisville, Ky. 
I am at the present time Vice-President of the Fidelity Trust 
and Safety Vault Company of Louisville, Ky. 

Since leaving college I have been living in Louisville, with the 
exception of one year, while taking the law course at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia. 

From the time of graduation in law until September, 1898, I 
practised law, first with Judge Goodloe as a partner, and after his 
death under the firm name of Harris & Barr. 

In October, 1891, I married Miss Margaret McFerran, in 
Louisville, Ky., and have a son, John McFerran Barr, about 
seven years of age. 



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I have never sought nor obtained political preferment, although 
I have taken an interest in such matters. I want again to thank 
the committee for the great services they rendered in making our 
last reunion the most successful we have held. 

Barr was one of the arbitration board of the Goebel-Taylor 
controversy, and incidentally endeavored to help to straighten 
out the affairs of the State. He was on the Committee of Organ- 
ization for the State. 

C. H. BATEMAN, 

Bdttoedf Somerville (N. J.) Unionist-Gazette. 

I have failed to reply to most of the communications sent out 
to '85 men because I was connected with the class such a short 
time that I felt I must have been forgotten by most of the 
members. 

I am at present residing at Somerville, N. J., where I am 
editor of the Unionist-Gazette, a weekly newspaper, and manager 
of a general publishing house, from which several publications 
are issued. 

I have resided at Trenton and Somerville since leaving Prince- 
ton. At the former city I was reporter, city editor of a daily 
paper, and political correspondent for various New York and 
Philadelphia journals. At the latter place I still continue my 
political correspondence in connection with my regular work 
here. 

I spent one summer traveling in England and on the Conti- 
nent, and this summer I took a trip through the Great Lakes, and 
still another I crossed the continent to California. These, with 
several shorter trips north and south, have been the extent of my 
peregrinations. 

I was married on June 25, 1896, and have one child, who 
was born July 27, 1898. His name is Charles Palmer Bateman. 

My profession has thrown me largely among politicians. 




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Though I have not gone into politics deeply, I have twice acted 
as Private Secretary to the President of the Senate of New Jersey. 

JAMES WILSON BAYARD, 

1001 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

He resided at Washington, D. C, as a clerk in the Department 
of State, from July 1, 1885, to October 20, 1890. While there 
he studied law, and was admitted to the bar of the District of 
Columbia. In October, 1890, he came to Philadelphia and entered 
on the practice of the law in the office of Mr. John Gr. Johnson, 
where he still remains. 

He is not married and has never gone into politics. Bayard is 
making a very great success at the law. 

Rev. R. H. BEATTIE, 

-^r.ewbiirgfe r N-.~Y. 

Here I am at Newburgh, N. Y., pastor of the Reformed 
(Dutch) Church. My career since 1885 has not been thrilling, 
although it has been considerably diversified. The experience at 
Beirut, Syria, teaching in the Syrian Protestant College, gave me 
larger opportunities for travel than I had any right to expect, 
and the continent of Europe and the shore of the Mediterranean 
are quite familiar ground. In Egypt, Palestine and Syria I have 
done three thousand miles in the saddle and was passed without 
examination on the Geography of the Holy Land on entering the 
Seminary. 

During this course, which began in '89, I shared the responsi- 
bility of teaching Princeton '94 Latin and English History to a 
class at Evelyn (a college for women). At graduation in '91 the 
New Testament Fellowship was conferred upon me, and as I had 
already accepted a call to this church I was given the privilege 
of taking the Fellowship at a later date. The University of Ber- 



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lin was, therefore, home to me during the academic year ^-'iM. 

After the German experience, Newburgh claimed me again, 
and on the 16th of April, 1895, I was married. Eleanor Knox 
was born on the 3d of August, 1897, and, although a progressive, 
depends largely upon her parents. She has not yet chosen her 
college. 

Politics has not been an absorbing interest. I live in New 
York State and until the nexus that links Piatt and Croker in the 
bonds of Bossism is severed I cannot be a partisan, and, therefore, 
follow Grover Cleveland into the speechless academic shades. 

JOSEPH D. BEDLE, 

Me£fiE-&-^E©I% ATTOKWirrS-XOT)^OXTN^m.OES- at-Law, 

No. 1 Exchange Place, Jersey City, 1ST. J. 
In reply to your circular, permit me to answer as follows : 

1. Permanent address, Law Office, 1 Exchange Place, Jersey 
City; house address, 96 Glenwood Avenue, Jersey City; occupa- 
tion, lawyer. 

2. Place of residence since leaving Princeton, Jersey City, N. 
J. Extent of travels at home and abroad, five trips to Europe 
and various travels in this country. 

3. Occupation during same period, lawyer and judge. 

4. Married June 20, 1888 ; one child living, a daughter, born 
December 21, 1896. 

5. I have taken an active part in politics, but have never been 
a candidate nor occupied an elective office. 

The following from a newspaper clipping gives us a good idea 
of what Bedle has been doing : 

Hon. Joseph D. Bedle, immediately after graduating, entered, 
as a student, the law office of Bedle, Muirheid & McGee, of Jersey 
City, and subsequently attended Columbia College Law School, 
and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 
June, 1888, and as a counselor in November, 1891. In 1888 he 
was admitted as a partner of his legal preceptors. 



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Judge Bedle, though a young man, has already won high rank 
at the bar, and is recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in East- 
ern New Jersey. He is a staunch Democrat, has for several years 
been active in politics, and was Chairman of the Hudson county 
delegation to the State Convention which nominated Hon. George 
T. Werts for Governor. He was aide-de-camp, with the rank of 
Colonel, on the staff of Governor Werts, who also appointed him 
in 1894, one of three Commissioners for New Jersey (the other 
two being Hon. J. Franklin Fort, of Newark, and Hon. Frank 
Bergen, of Elizabeth) for the promotion of uniformity of legis- 
lation in the United States. In January, 1896, he was appointed 
by Governor Griggs, Judge of the District Court of Jersey City 
for a term of five years. Judge Bedle found it impossible on ac- 
count of his large private practice to continue to serve the city in 
his capacity as District Court Judge, an office which he filled with 
so much credit. In 1893 Chancellor McGill appointed him a 
Special Master in Chancery. 

After the death of his father, Judge Bedle succeeded to sev- 
eral positions of honor and trust. He is a director and counsel of 
the United New Jersey Eailroad and Canal Company, and of the 
First National Bank of Jersey City, the largest banking institu- 
tion in the State; counsel for the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western Eailroad Company, and a director of and counsel for the 
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, the Colonial Life Insurance 
Company of America, and many other large corporations. He is 
also a director of the People's Light and Power Company of New 
Jersey and of the West Side Land and Building Company, United 
Electric Company of New Jersey, a trustee of the Children's 
Friends' Society (or Children's Home) of Jersey City, and a rul- 
ing elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City. Be- 
sides these, he is an officer in several large corporations operating 
in this State, among them the Cleveland Seed Company, of which 
he is Secretary. He is a member and formerly a trustee of the 



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Palma Club, a member and trustee of the Carteret Club, and a 
member of the Jersey City Bar Association and of the Jersey City 
Golf Club, all of Jersey City ; a member of the Democratic Club 
of the city of New York, the Manhattan Club, the Princeton Club 
and the American Museum of Natural History of New York; a 
member of the Washington Association of Morristown and of the 
Eevolutionary Memorial Society; a member of and one of the 
governors of the Lake Hopatcong Club of New Jersey. 

On June 21, 1888, Judge Bedle was married to Miss Fanny 
Read Ege, daughter of Horatio N. Ege, of Jersey City, the head 
of the commission house of Ege & Otis, of New York. They have 
one daughter, Josephine D. Bedle. 

Major WILLIAM D. BELL, M. D., 

Manila (or 160 West 83rd Street, New York City). 

In 1898 Bell wrote for "Princeton in the Spanish- American 
War" as follows : 

Being a member of the Seventy-first Regiment, National- 
Guard, New York, and holding a commission as Captain and As- 
sistant Surgeon, when the war broke out I immediately volun- 
teered for service with my regiment. On May 2, 1898, the regi- 
ment left New York city for Camp Black, near Hempstead, N. Y., 
where on the 4th day of May, 1898, 1 was mustered into the serv- 
ice as Major and Surgeon of the regiment that was accepted by 
the Government as the Seventy-first Regiment, New York Volun- 
teers. I believe I was the first man accepted and mustered into 
the service of the United States from New York State. I served 
with the regiment as Major and Surgeon from the time it was 
mustered in, May 10, 1898 (wherever it served — at Camp Black, 
New York, en route to Lakeland, Fla., at Lakeland and 
Tampa, Fla., and in the expedition against Santiago, Cuba). 
I was with it throughout the whole Santiago campaign, being 
present with it at the battles of Las Guasimas, fought with Span- 



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ish forces June 24, 1898 ; in camp with it at Siboney and Sevilla, 
and on the morning of July 1, 1898, marched with it to take part 
in the bloody three-days' battle of San Juan Hills ; was present 
at the siege of Santiago and the bombardment of July 10 and 11, 
and witnessed the surrender of the city, July 17, 1898. I served 
through the terrible days of the epidemic of yellow fever (Bell 
had yellow fever himself) and malarial fevers that followed the 
surrender, until the final return of the regiment to the United 
States, landing at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y., August 
19, 1898, and remained with it until after its triumphal return to 
New York city, when the regiment was furloughed August 29, 
1898, for sixty days, to be finally mustered out this month, No- 
vember, 1898. 

Bell has now given up his practice in New York and has gone 
to Manila, where he is a Surgeon in the army. He has also had 
many adventures there. When he went to the Philippines he was 
married and had one son. 

GEANT E. BENNETT, 



Park Row Building, New York City. 
After practicing law in Texas for some years Bennett came to 
New York, where he now is. 

THOMAS C. BERRY, 

Q baii t ^rasmisstfty, 

202 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. 

(Or University Club, San Franciseo r Gal. ) 
In 1884 was assistant bookkeeper in the California Iron and 
Steel Company; in 1885, bookkeeper with Allen & Lewis ; in 1890, 
cashier and grain salesman of Allen & Lewis. In 1892 he became 
a member of the San Francisco Grain Exchange. In 1898 he was 
with Henry F. Allen, "Shipping and Commission." Was not 
married in 1896. 



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Db. EDMUND W. BILL, 

24 West 25th Street, New York City. 

1 was greatly disappointed in not finding a way to be with the 
class last June. I have been so tied down to my work for the past 
two years that I have no conception of what the word vacation 
means. 

I hope to be on hand in 1905, and yon may kindly reserve me 
a seat in the baldest of baldhead row well np front. 

I have one child, a little girl of two and a half, whom I am 
training to root for the Class of 1911. 

After graduation I was a student of chemistry at Freiberg, 
Germany. I have been practicing medicine in New York city 
6ince I left the position of Honse Physician to the Presbyterian 
Hospital in the early nineties. 

For the past six years I have devoted myself to the special study 
of diseases of the nose, throat and ear. 

It has been an uphill task to acquire a clientele, but I trust 
things have now begun to come my way. 

At present I am connected with Columbia University, being 
Clinical Assistant in the Medical Department, and trust, if I live 
long enough, to have an instructorship in diseases of nose and 
throat in the same institution. 

I have charge of the Ear and Throat Clinic of the Presbyterian 
Hospital. I meet very few '85 in New York, for the good reason 
that only ten or a dozen are living here. 

C. W. BIRD, 

Hotel Winthrop, 125th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City. 
In June, 1900, Wilson said : Bird, I think, is in Europe. He 
studied law, but never practiced law. He is getting on well. 

J. H. BLYE, 

N. W, Corner 16th and Carpenter -Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 

I suppose you have been sending me to all kinds of hot places 

for not making a reply to your circular letter of July 17, and, if 



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my supposition is correct, I do not blame you. I offer my apolo- 
gies and trust you will accept the lame excuse that your letter 
was mislaid. 

In this morning's mail I received a letter from our "Grand Old 
Man," John B. Miles, calling me to account for my neglect of 
your summons. I accordingly hasten to give you immediate 
attention. 

I exceedingly regret that it has not been my lot or good fortune 
to see many '85 men in the past few years ; and it was a great 
disappointment to me not to be able to be present at the recent 
reunion. 

My home address is Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. At present 
time I am Treasurer of Southern Waste Works, Limited, N. W. 
corner Sixteenth and Carpenter streets, Philadelphia, which posi- 
tion I have had since January, 1891. After leaving Princeton I 
secured a position as clerk with the Philadelphia and Beading 
Railway Company, at the munificent salary of $14.00 per month, 
to which was added transportation on this road and dinner. I 
remained with them about one year and succeeded in having my 
efforts appreciated to the extent of increase in salary to $50.00 
per month. In 1886 I started in the lumber and railroad cross- 
tie business and remained in it till 1890. On July 5, 1890, I 
sailed from New York for a six-months' trip to Europe, and while 
over there ran across a number of Princeton men. While in Paris 
met Rod Wanamaker, whom I have to thank for many pleasant 
recollections of that city. 

On January 25, 1894, I was married in St. Mary's Protestant 
Episcopal Church, Thirty-ninth and Locust streets, Philadel- 
phia. On February 26, 1896, my son, John Henry Blye, Jr., 
was born, and at the present time is as ardent a rooter in his 
small way for Princeton as his father. He has not fully decided 
yet when he will take his entrance exams, for Princeton. Trust 
it will not be many years. 



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S. M. BRANN, 

Real Estate, Live Stock, Loans. 

Springfield, South Dakota. 
I beg that you will excuse my seeming slackness in not replying 
to your other missives. All that I have to say in my defense for 
not answering before is that I believe in the Westminster Con- 
fession of Faith as it now stands, especially in election, and that 
I presume that an overruling Providence ordained that I was 
not to answer until now, and that, therefore, the blame, if any, 
must fall on Providence. 

1. Address, Springfield, South Dakota; occupation, real estate 
and loans. 

2. Have lived since leaving Princeton, from '85 to '91, in Mon- 
tana; from '91 to '92, New York city; '92 to '95, in Montana; '95 
to '96, South Dakota; '96, in Sioux City, la.; '97 to 1900, in 
South Dakota. I have never been out of North America, but have 
traveled through all the western and northwestern States, ex- 
cept Washington and Oregon, and through nearly all of the 
southern and eastern, and also have been in Canada. 

3. I taught school for six months in Montana, then followed 
the cattle and general live stock business (ranching) until '91 ; 
studied law. From '92 to '95 was a Government contractor at 
Miles City, Montana ; also had a store, and was in the cattle and 
meat business. Worked in a bank two years in Dakota, was in 
the grocery manufacturing business a year in Sioux City, and 
have put in some time in the real estate business besides. 

4. Was married November 20, 1895, at Springfield, South 
Dakota. Have no children. 

5. Have never been a candidate for nor occupied any political 
office, but have been active in promoting Republican success — as 
committeeman, etc. 

6. Don't think I ever occupied any prominent position of 
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7. Don't know anything about any '85 men; don't think there 
is one in this State. 

8. Will not suggest anything about next reunion ; will be satis- 
fied with any arrangement that is made. 

I have always been an ordinary humdrum citizen. While I 
have never had much honor thrust upon me, I doubt not that the 
more discerning of my fellow-townsmen and acquaintances are 
longing to thrust, etc., but fear to offend my austere virtue by so 
thrusting as aforesaid. I have had no adventures worth relating 
(as adventures go in the mountainous West). However, I doubt 
very much if Theodore Koosevelt at his palmiest was ever one- 
tenth the practical range cow-man that I have been, and one 
doesn't learn that trade without a good deal of rough and tumble. 
I have been "busted," and have made money. Have never been 
distressingly pinched, however, by poverty, and shall probably 
never be a millionaire. I have never performed any signal service 
for humanity, and, on the other hand, have always maintained 
myself and paid my full share of taxes and other public burdens, 
and have not injured or oppressed anyone. I am an average man. 
Had it not been for early educational advantages, probably might 
not have "averaged up." 

I entertain the most affectionate feelings toward my Alma 
Mater and hope sometime again to be in Princeton, possibly this 
fall or winter. 

JOHN H. BKICKENSTEIN. 

Examiner-in-Chief, 

Patent Office, Washington, D. C. 

At the class supper in June, Brickenstein said : "Like many 

of these other gentlemen, I worked hard for a job and got one. I 

took the first one that came, at McKeesport, Pa., with an electric 

construction company; worked there about six months for 



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nothing a day and my grub. Then went to Du Bois, Pa., for a 
month or two, and then to Johnstown and various other Penn- 
sylvania towns, finally to Altoona, where I had charge of the con- 
struction of the electric light plant at the salary of $75 a month. 
Incidentally, was arrested for assault and battery for chucking 
a man out of a hole, as we were trying to put a pole in. Soon 
after I left Princeton I had taken the Civil Service examination 
for the Patent Office. In September, 1885, I received a position 
at Washington and went there, and have been there ever since. 
I started in as Fourth Assistant Examiner in Mr. Cleveland's 
administration ; got one promotion by asking for it and others as 
the result of competitive examinations; was in 1895 appointed 
by President Cleveland Examiner-in-Chief. Since I have been 
in the Patent Office I have taken a year's course in chemistry in 
one of the colleges in Washington, studied law, been admitted to 
the bar, and am now a member of the bar. 

J. WOODS BKOWN, 

jJEBOIA?fr-A€ffiN^ , -T-HB MEfiCH-AtfTS' ItfgOTANXJE "COMPANY 

OF NeWAKBL- 

/ 5"/ 4£frWalnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

This is the sad story of my life. As is usual, after graduation, 
I returned to the "Only" town, Milton, where I remained for 
about six months, loafing around, waiting for something to turn 
up. Then an opportunity occurred, to become one of a party to 
build a railroad, not one of the bunch having an extra supply of 
wealth. We secured the necessary funds, however, and builfc 
twenty-one miles of railroad. After operating it for two years, we 
had a good chance to sell out. This we did quickly, fearing lest 
the purchasers might wake up and change their minds. I made 
a little bunch of hard-earned wealth out of this deal, and returned 
to Milton to blow myself. Shortly after that I started in the fire 
insurance business, continuing in it for about three years at that 



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place. In 1891 I was appointed by Governor Pattison Deputy 
Insurance Commissioner of the State of Pennsylvania, which 
compelled me to remove to Harrisburg, where I remained for 
about four years, filling the above position. 

In 1895 I resigned, to accept a position with a fire insurance 
company, becoming their special agent for Pennsylvania, Dela- 
ware and Maryland. I still hold that position and presume I will 
continue in the insurance business till the end of time. After 
leaving Harrisburg I removed to Philadelphia, where I now re- 
side. I suppose I see as many Princeton men as any other mem- 
ber of our class, as my business calls me to many towns where 
the good Princeton people live. I have never been married, and 
at this time have no prospects. This ends the story of my life up 
to this time. 

HENRY C. BRYAN, 

Edwards & Bryan, Lawyers, 

31 Nassau Street, New York City. 
In June, 1900, Edwards said: Bryan would have been here, 
and wanted to come very much, but he has just had an abscess in 
the ear, but is better, and to-day has come out, and down to the 
office. I don't know whether many men in college appreciated it, 
but Bryan is one of the top kind of hustlers. I consider myself 
fortunate in the law business in that I have secured so good a 
partner. 





JAMES BUCKELEW, 

Assistant Engineer Phila. l & Erie R. R. Division — 



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Penna. R. R. Company — Middle Division. 
Hfe g p vorPa. 

A letter sent to Jamesburg will always reach me, no matter 
where I may be living at the time. 



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I entered the service of the Pennsylvania Kailroad as a rodman 
in an engineer corps, July after graduation. This corps was lo- 
cated at various places in the hard coal regions of Pennsylvania, 
making surveys for branch roads. My life during this period was 
varied, had some fun and gained considerable experience. In 
November, 1896, was transferred to Altoona as a rodman in the 
M. W. Dept., which position is supposed to be a school where the 
young man qualifies for the duties of Assistant Supervisor and 
incidentally does a little useful work during the day, while the 
nights are spent with the other fellows about as is done at college. 
These "other fellows/' including motive power shop apprentices, 
generally number about fifteen and are largely college graduates. 

After eighteen months of this, partly at Altoona and partly at 
Tyrone, I was, in April, 1888, appointed Assistant Supervisor on 
the West Penn Division with office at Freeport, Pa. In Decem- 
ber of same year, was transferred with same rank to G-reensburg, 
Pa. In April, 1890, was promoted to Supervisor and located on 
Tyrone Division at Tyrone. This being the first job where I was 
monarch of all in sight, I naturally liked it. In April, 1893, was 
transferred to Norristown, Pa., still as Supervisor in charge o* 
"Trenton Cut-off/' September 1, 1895, was made Supervisor of 
the "Main Line," with jurisdiction from Latrobe to East Pitts- 
burg and branches, with office at Wall, Pa. This job was a tough 
one by reason of its having, in addition to the steady work of look- 
ing after the tracks, the emergency feature of wrecks and other 
kindred troubles, which generally came at night and often many 
nights in succession. It had one bright spot, and that was get- 
ting for each year while at Wall, the prize for best track on the 
Pittsburg Division. 

January 1, 1900, was promoted to my present position, Assist- 
ant Engineer Middle Division P. & E., office at Renovo, Penna. 
The division has light traffic, but long mileage, about 300 miles, 
making it unhandy to get around. During the fifteen years since 



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leaving Princeton I have acquired no riches and not much glory. 
I am unmarried, have taken no part in politics, either as a worker 
or as an holder of office ; it is with me, railroad first, last and f or- 
evermore. The reunion in 1905 should be in all respects similar 
to the one of 1900, except more so, in that the band should con- 
tinue during the whole visit and more men should be present. 
We will all, if alive, be over forty years of age, and enough our 
own bosses to attend if we wish. 

CLAEENCE L. BUEGEE, 

Patents and Patent Causes, 

253 Broadway, New York City. 
Burger had planned to be at the reunion in June, 1900, but was 
prevented from coming until the last day, arriving in time to go 
to the Harvard game on Wednesday afternoon. He is a very suc- 
cessful patent lawyer. He is married, and has children. 

F. W. BUELEIGH, M.D., 

82 Walnut Street, Fitchburg, Mass. 
Burleigh graduated, on the Honor List, from the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in New York in '88. Afterward he 
studied medicine in Europe, and since that time has been practic- 
ing medicine in Fitchburg. He was not married in 1896. 

Eev. PUTNAM CADY, 

Amsterdam, N. Y. 
Since leaving college, I have been pastor of churches at West 
Superior, Wis., and Amsterdam, N. Y. In travels, have covered 
the Western States and Alaska. Two trips of six months each 
to Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Not married. 

Eev. EOBEET E. CAETEE, 

r HwuJ2ajso»age, ^Washington, Conn. 
Thy servant is busy about many things, especially from Sat- 
urday morning until Monday morning, and so did not get to the 



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reunion. But I would have liked to have been in at that ninth inn- 
ing; it must have made the blood run and the cheers rip in the 
good old way. As for my history, the old saying goes, "blessed 
is the people that have no history/' and mine has been very likely 
all the more happy in that it has not been notable. Union Semi- 
nary, New York, Lebanon, Penna., and Washington, Conn., have 
been my only places of residence since leaving Princeton; the 
ministry has been my only work, save for passing and transient 
excursions into editorship, and a more or less continuous writing 
for religious journals. I have spent two summers in traveling 
abroad and have wandered and wondered with the multitude 
along the trodden ways of most European lands. My most inter- 
esting personal experience was in meeting with Miss Emma Ster- 
ling, of Bridgeport, Conn., on one of these excursions abroad, 
and a journey at home with her, which, beginning shortly after 
we returned to America, has lasted very happily up to the present 
time. My single honor seems to be that I am the only Princeton 
man in this town, and only three such, I think, in this county, and 
I doubt if a great many more in all the State of Connecticut. 
Still, if at the games you hear one lone cheer for Princeton come 
from up this way, you will know that it is I, and not afraid. 
Greetings to you all, and a meeting with you sometime, I hope ; 
if only you do not put it on Saturday. 

W. W. CATOR, 

.Eqeeig^ Buyer for Armstrong, Cator &£e v 

9 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. 

Cator wrote before the reunion: I do not know of anything 

that would give me more pleasure than to join you all in June. 

At present I do not see my way clear to make any definite plans so 

far ahead, as my movements are very uncertain. For the last 



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fourteen years I have spent a large part of each year abroad, and 
have not been able to attend any reunion since 1886. If I can 
possibly be with you, I will be on hand. 

Cator is married, and has children. 

WARREN B. CHAPIN, M.D., 

52 West 104th Street, New York City. 

Your letter was forwarded to me here in San Francisco, and I 
hope this will reach you in time. Am sorry I was not able to go 
back again to the reunion (you know I was at the Yale game), but 
sickness in my family prevented. I have been living in New York 
city since graduation, and practicing medicine at 52 West One 
Hundred and Fourth street. Have had no honors, and am mak- 
ing a living. Have traveled pretty much over this country and in 
Europe. Was married December 12, 1885, and have five children, 
born as follows: ^ 

Josephine S., October 20, 1886. ^ 

Madeline B., October 22, 1888. K^ 

Warren B., February 8, 1890. V' 

Reginald F., March 5, 1892:V / 

Godfrey S., May 8, 1894. * 



C. STEELE CLARK, 

Manger of E. P. Remington's Advertising Bureau, 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
In June, 1900, Shea said : Clark went into Remington's about 
three years ago. Since that time he has proved himself a man of 
a great deal of ability in that line, and has steadily advanced in it 
until he is practically the head of the business at the present time. 
He works very hard, and seldom gets away from business. He 
sings a great deal — better than he ever did; he sings in one of 
the churches in Pittsburg. 



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* A. B. CLERIHEW, 

1913 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. 
In June, 1900, Coney said : Clerihew left college in December, 
1883, and went to Minneapolis with his father's dry goods firm, 
which moved from Cincinnati at that time. He married Miss 
Foreman, of Minneapolis, in 1885. Later he became credit man 
in the firm of Foreman, Ford & Co. He has held that position 
ever since. He wrote that he would like very much to come to 
this reunion, but has been unable to get here. 

V HARLAN CLEVELAND, 

GbwrwLAitD & Bowler; Counselqes-at-Law, 

56 Carew Building, Cincinnati, 0. 
At the class supper in June, 1900, Cleveland said : To get rid 
of myself first, before I come to the general remarks suitable to 
the occasion, I, as most of you know, went to Germany after my 
graduation. I sailed for Holland on the 20th of June, 1885, 
landing in Amsterdam on the 4th of July. I went to Goettingen 
and the Hartz Mts. for the summer, and in the fall to Berlin, 
where I remained at the University until the following June, 
when I returned to this country. I commenced the study of the 
law at Washington, D. C, in '86, was admitted to the bar in '83, 
and was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for 
the Southern District of Ohio, at Cincinnati, Ohio. I filled that 
position for about a year and a half, when a new administration 
came in and dispensed with my services. I married in June, '88. 
I thought I was going to get the class cup, but it seems that Con- 
ner over there and Chapin were ahead of me. My oldest son was 
born on the first day of April, 1889. I have continued to practice 
law in Cincinnati. In '96 I was appointed United States Attor- 
ney for the Southern District of Ohio by President Cleveland, 
and held that office a little over four years, when again my serv- 
ices were found to be no longer necessary — my commission ex- 
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I have four children, two boys and two girls, distributed along 
through the years in the course of nature. 

Married at Washington, D. C, June 5, 1888. 

Stanley Matthews Cleveland, born April 1, 1889. 

Eva Cleveland, born December 16, 1892. 

James Harlan Cleveland, Jr., born August 28, 1894. 

Jane Gray Cleveland, born February 7, 1899. 

My voice will not permit me to say what I wanted to in the way 
of general remarks. I want to tell you how glad I am to be back 
here. I have come a good ways, and always intend to come, as 
long as I live. I don't know why it is. With some people it is 
very easy to be sentimental and profess to feel things they donH 
feel ; but to me my college life was the beginning of everything, 
it seems. It was my first real experience in life and in the possi- 
bilities of life, though you cannot always express those things in 
a way that don't sound a little sophomoric, like that speech Wil- 
son was telling us about, "Man rises, laughs, and dies," or that 
one with which I commenced a college essay, "The days come and 
go." I am awfully glad to be back here, I assure you, and I hope 
that we will always have so successful a reunion as we have had 
this time. I am certain I want to do now what we have not done. 
I want to propose a vote of thanks to the President and Secretary 
of this class. 

Professor JOHN H. CONEY, 
Princeton, N. J. 
After graduation Pershing and I undertook to enlarge and 
improve an old institution of learning, situated in the town of 
Harrisburg, Pa. We invested some money in it, and certainly en- 
larged it. But the presumption is that we did not improve it, 
for we did not succeed in making income equal outgo. After 
three years of it we retired. 



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I then went for two years to the Hillman Academy, at Wilkes- 
barre, Pa., and in the fall of 1891 returned to Princeton to be- 
come an instructor in history. 

In June, 1892, I went to Germany and was a student at the 
universities of Greifswald and Berlin for two years. Since my 
return in September, 1894, I have been an instructor, and later 
Assistant Professor of History at Princeton. I was in Europe 
during the summer of 1898, traveling by bicycle through South- 
ern England, France and Northern Italy. 

I hope the class can come together again for a general reunion 
in 1905. 

Kev. W. W. CONNER, 

310 Main Street, Belleville, N. J. 

I am the pastor of the Reformed Church. Since leaving Prince- 
ton have lived in Minneapolis, Minn., Great Falls, Mont., and 
Belleville, N. J. 

Married in Minneapolis, June 8, 1887. Have three children : 

Leslie, twelve years old. 

William Stryker, ten years old. 

Henry Waddell, five years old. 

While at the reunion in June, 1900, Conner told of many of 
his thrilling experiences while he lived in the West. The stenog- 
rapher's report of these remarks were sent to Conner, who gar- 
nisheed them and sent the quiet note above. But his entertaining 
remarks will long be remembered by those who heard them. 

K* JOHN S. CONOVER, 

Care of General Electric Company, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Answering your letter of July 17 in reference to my history 
since leaving Princeton, would say that I spent the first year after 
graduation working in the machine shop under the Scientific 
School. 



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In the fall of '87 I entered the employ of the Brush Electric 
Company at Cleveland, 0., and worked in their shops until July 
of the following year. I was then transferred to Pittsburg, and 
there I had charge of the engineering work of the Brush Company 
in the district controlled by the Pittsburg office. This position 
I held for a year, and in the summer of '88 entered the employ 
of the Bentley-Knight Company, who were engaged in building 
an electric road in Allegheny. I worked for this company in 
Allegheny, New York and Boston, until ? 89, when I entered the 
employ of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. 

In February, 1890, 1 went to Germany for the Thomson-Hous- 
ton International Company. I spent two years in Bremen, equip- 
ping the street railway there with electricity, and then entered 
the employ of the Union Elektricitats Gesellschaf t in Berlin, who 
were operating under the Thomson-Houston patents. I remained 
in the employ of this company until the end of '94, when I re- 
turned to the United States and entered the employ of the Gen- 
eral Electric Company at Schenectady. Under this company I 
had charge of the installation of the first section of the sub- 
trolley road in New York on Lenox avenue, the successful opera- 
tion of which led the Metropolitan Street Eailway Company to 
decide to equip practically their whole system with electricity. 

Shortly after my engagement with the General Electric Com- 
pany I was made Superintendent of Construction, and later given 
charge of the Draughting Eoom and made Engineer of the For- 
eign Department, which positions I now hold. 

Answering the specified questions in their order : 

4. I was married at Schenectady on April 21, '97. I have two 
children, the first born May 30, '98, and the second on March 17, 
1900. 

5. I have taken no active part in politics, and have never been 
a candidate for or occupied any political office. 

6. I have occupied no positions of trust or honor except those 
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7. There are no '85 men that I see habitually, and am sorry 
to say that I know very little about the movements of my class- 
mates in general. 

8. I have no suggestions to make regarding next reunion. 

JOHN C. COOPER, 

Baltimore Club, Baltimore, Md. 

At the class supper in June, 1900, some one said: Cooper 
started in Baltimore as a member of a firm in some gas stove busi- 
ness. This he left in 1893. He is a preat fox hunter: has two of 
the fines t jumpers in Baltimore. He is a dead game sport so far 
as riding, etc., goes, and is very popular. He is personally rather 
quiet. He is rather bald. (This remark must have come from 
Gaither.) He went to the Johns Hopkins Medical School, which 
he attended for about a year, and did very well indeed ; stood very 
high, and made a good record in the preliminary branches of the 
study of medicine. He suddenly took it into his head that that 
wasn't what he was called to, and resigned in high honors and 
went into the stock brokerage business, in which he is still en- 
gaged. 

A postscript in Spence's letter written November 21, 1900, 
says: I forgot to mention Jack Cooper, who is the same easy- 
going Jack that he was at college. He is engaged in the brokerage 
business and making money. This is his wedding do,y, and to- 
night he marries Miss Jenkins, one of Baltimore's prettiest and 
wealthiest girls. 

EUGENE C. COULTER, 

HEADMASTER, UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, 

399 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 111. 
At the reunion in June, 1900, it was said : He is running the 
most successful school in Chicago. He is a born pedagogue. His 



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ability to handle boys and parents is marvelous. He is a very 
successful fellow. He teaches Latin and mathematics. He 
started with nothing, and built up the largest, best equipped and 
most important private school west of New York. He is married 
and has several children. 

MONROE CRAWFORD. 

Is a lawyer in New York. He studied in Gottingen at one 
time. 

WILLIAM DARLING, 

36 South River Street, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Some of us saw him at a baseball game a few years ago. Brown 
has seen him lately. 

AARON V. DAWES, 

Hightstown, N. J. 
Was at the reunion in 1900. Was not married in 1896. 

J. H. DAWSON, 

Eutaw Savings Bank, 

Baltimore, Md. 
In June, 1900, Fisher said : Dawson studied law when he first 
went back to Baltimore, and for a short time he practiced it ; then 
he went into the Eutaw Savings Bank, where he now is. He is 
married and has three children. 

SHERRERD DEPUE, 



776 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
Depue is a very successful lawyer in Newark. He was Assist- 
ant United States Attorney, District of New Jersey, from 1890 to 
1892. He was appointed City Attorney, Newark, N. J., on No- 



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vember 12, 1894. He is married and has children. His father, 
Chief Justice Depue, who was at commencement, said that Sher- 
rerd had a garden that took all his spare time. 

JOHN E. DICKEY, 

BALP WTXr - JjQ€OMOTim Works, Philadelphia. 
(Or University Clnb, Philadelphia.) 

I have not changed my occupation since the last '85 record was 
published. 

In recent years I have made but one journey which could be 
said to have "extent/' On September 1 of this year the far-famed 
J. Woods Brown, a mutual friend, and myself went to Paris, 
where we were the guests of Eod Wanamaker. Brownie's letter has 
been in the hands of the Secretary for several months, so it would 
be unfair of me to tell the boys how a Pennsylvania Dutchman 
looks, acts and trys to talk in Paris, until he can defend himself. 
I will, therefore, say nothing now except that in spite of the 
handicap of having Brownie taken for a German, we enjoyed 
every minute of our trip, which comprised just one month, giving 
us eleven days in Paris. Nothing escaped us. At the Exposition 
we saw everything from the sacred relics in the Petit Palais to the 
profane ones who did the hoochey coochey; nor were we less thor- 
ough as to the city proper — and improper. 

After telling the fellows that I have been doing Paris with 
Brownie, it is needless for me to state, in reply to the fourth ques- 
tion, that I am not married. 

I have no suggestion to make regarding our next reunion, ex- 
cept that it be organized and carried out upon the same lines as 
was the last one. I am sure that every man who was fortunate 
enough to be with us last June will agree that no class reunion in 
the history of Princeton could have passed off so delightfully as 
ours. 



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WILLIAM A. DICKEY, 

^BSSlBr^ Seattle, Wash.) . 
W. Dickey has had an eventful life. He went to Seattle and 
Montesino, Wash., and was in various banking and other busi- 
nesses. He has been married for some years and has children. 
For the last four years he has been much of the time in Alaska, 
where he owns several claims. He discovered and named Mount 
McKinley, the highest mountain in the United States. The New 
York Sun published his account of this. His descriptions of some 
of his trips, taken when the mercury was frozen in the glass, are 
most entertaining to all who have heard him relate them. Great, 
also, is his knowledge of the value of "Mexican pinks" as a food, 
and of the time which one man can live on the food packed in by 
himself on his back. His muscles are hard as nails and he likes 
adventure and hardship. He is still prospecting and will strike it 
rich some day. 

Eev. R. J. DODDS, 

Mediae; Turkey. 

4^^S^^^J^tti^^i^portant, British P. 0., Constan- 
tinople. 

I had but a "touch and go" acquaintance with the class of '85. 
I was but a "conditioned" Freshman at best, and had no right to 
expect the boys to remember me, much less to take so much trouble 
to hunt me up, like a needle in a haystack, or a partridge in the 
mountains, that I might have the honor of their acknowledgment. 

(In June, 1900, Conner said: He would stand in prayers and 
wouldn't stand during the singing of music in the chapel while he 
was here.) 

My reason for standing in chapel during prayer, to which Con- 
ner refers, was simply because I thought it the most reverent pos- 
ture in public prayer. My refusal to stand during the singing of 
the hymns was because I believed hymn singing and organ play- 



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ing in the worship of God to be without warrant in the divine 
word — a corruption of worship which I had no right to honor 
by assuming a standing position during that part of the service. 
I shall be extremely pleased to have the class record when it is 
published. 

In '82 I entered Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa. In '86 en- 
tered E. P. Theological Seminary, Allegheny. In '89 was licensed 
to preach at Beaver Falls, Pa. Preached in Indiana, Illinois and 
Colorado. Ordained to the ministry of the gospel in 1890, and 
was married to Miss Jennie Garrett, of Beaver Falls, June 19, 
1890. After six years in mission work in Cilicia, resigned on ac- 
count of serious illness of wife and children and other reasons. 
Spent a few months in Scotland. Then returned to America. 
Preached from Boston to La Junta, Col. Eeturned in the autumn 
of 1897 to Turkey. We have five children in our home, viz.: 
Archibald Wycliffe Wylie, born March 25, '91 ; Darida Garretta, 
born November 11, '92; Mary Lulu Amanda, born May 3, '94; 
Josephine Beattie, born August 19, '96 ; William Garrett, born 
November 4, 1898. They were all born in Mersine except Jose- 
phine Beattie, born in Beaver Falls, Pa. 

The cities in our mission field are Mersine, Tarsus and Adana, 
all connected by a railroad. There are about twenty villages in 
which Arabic is spoken. The Turkish-speaking races fall to the 
province of A. B. C. F. M. Duties call me frequently to Cyprus, 
Alexandretta, Aleppo, Antioch, Idlib, Latakia ; to Suadea, ancient 
Selucia, and as far south on Syrian coast as Tartovs and the 
island of Arvad. I have traveled into the interior to Everek, 
Caesaria, and the wild Circassian settlements in the region of 
Sivas, and have been as far south as the pyramids of Egypt. 

Have passed through varied hardships and dangers, but only 
on two occasions have attempts been made upon my life : once 
by bandits on Mt. Cassius, who from a distance of 300 or 400 
yards fired a number of shots at me with rifles ; once again by the 



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Turkish police in the harbor of Beirut, for preaching them unac- 
cepted truths on the deck of an English steamer. During the 
Armenian massacres I was the means of having them nipped in 
the bud in Adana and Tarsus by notifying commanders of U. S. 
cruisers in Mersine when the troubles began in the cities named. 

Since I left Princeton I have only had the good fortune to meet 
three '85 men — Austin and Dr. Calvin Todd Hood, of Chicago, 
and Wylie, connected with iron mills in Beaver Falls. 

I am a dissenter in politics, on the ground that it is the duty of 
every nation — as a moral person, to acknowledge God, Christ and 
the divine law — to become in fact a true theocracy, and that it is 
sinful for Christians to identify themselves in any way with the 
government so long as our nation does not in its organized 
capacity own the divine sovereignty. 

* N. BROOKE DOLAN, 

1807 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Is said to be on Easy Street. 

J +. WILLIAM W. DONALDSON, 

Automobile and Manufacturing Co., 
872 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 

I am in receipt of your request for letter from me for '85 
record. I am at present the electrical engineer of the above com- 
pany. After leaving college I took a special course in chemistry 
and physics, and after eighteen months started in electrical worK. 
I have made a specialty of electric storage batteries, and am the 
inventor and patentee of one which is in extensive use. I equipped 
and operated (as far as I know) the first street car equipped with 
storage batteries. My work has been confined to Baltimore and 
Washington. I am now starting an electric 'bus line in Wash- 
ington, the first in this section of the country. 



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I was married on January 5, 1887, and have two children, both 
girls. The eldest, Elise, is twelve years of age, and Rosalie, eight. 
I have taken no active part in politics, although a lively interest 
in same. I am a member of the Baltimore Whist Club and Secre- 
tary of the Baltimore Automobile Club. I should like to sub- 
scribe to a copy of the new record, and hope you will kindly let 
me have one as soon as issued. 

* JAMES R. DOUGLAS, 
Mansfield, Ohio. 
No report. 

] Dr. MALVERN N. DUE, 

Rfifiidf>w»: 1921 Fifth Avenue, Birmingham, Ala. 

My career since leaving Princeton has been very uneventful. I 
was graduated with degree of M.D. from the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, New York City, in May, 1888. Served as 
interne in Jersey City Hospital from May, '88, to May, '89. After 
resting a month in Montgomery, Ala., I began the practise of my 
profession in that young and prosperous iron centre of the South, 
Birmingham, Ala., where I now am, and expect to remain until 
iron goes out of use, or I am consigned to the dust. 

2. I have lived in no other city. Have diligently attended to 
the practise of medicine. 

4. On November 9, 1892, 1 was married in Montgomery, Ala., 
to Miss Annie E. Clanton. Have one child, a daughter, born on 
2d of October, 1893. Her name is Juliette Clanton Due. 

5. Never take any part in politics. We have only one party in 
local and State affairs ; so much rivalry is wanting. 

6. In 1897 Birmingham had an epidemic of smallpox. I was 
appointed City Health Officer, with forty men under me, to put 
down the epidemic. This we succeeded in accomplishing. I am 



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now United States physician for United States prisoners in this 
district. Am also a member of the Board of United States Ex- 
amining Surgeons for pensions. 

7. Last summer I ran across Wilbur at Asbury Park, and I 
believe that he is the only '85 man that I have seen since '91. 
Princeton men are by no means numerous in Alabama. I know 
of only one Princeton man besides myself in the Birmingham 
district— Dr. E. H. Sholl, '53. 

8. Perhaps it would hardly be proper for me to make any sub- 
gestions about the next reunion. I deeply regretted my inability 
to be present at the last one in June, and as I have seen nothing 
of the class, as a class, since '88, my suggestions might be "back 
numbers." "I will be there," if I am here, is all that I can say. 

In conclusion, I would add that though I have had a variety of 
experiences that would be of no interest to the class, yet as a 
whole the world has treated me fairly well. I have a good prac- 
tise and am as happy as the ordinary man ever becomes. 

FRANK S. DUNSHEE, 

76, 77 and 78 Clapp Block, Des Moines, la. 
I am glad to learn that the '85 reunion was a great success and 
am very glad that a new record is to be issued. I should have 
been with you at this reunion had it not been that I was obliged to 
go to California on business about that time. Replying to your 
inquiries, will say that I have comparatively little of interest to 
write. I have been in Des Moines practising law ever since my 
admission to the bar in 1887. I have stuck right to my profession 
and have been connected with some important litigation. I have 
never run for office but once. Then I was a candidate for City 
Solicitor before the Republican primaries, and was defeated by 
one vote in a total of about 6,000 votes cast. 



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I was married at Sharon, Pa., on the 14th day of November, 
1889, and have two children — William Hamilton, born September 
17, 1892, and Agnes, born November 7, 1895. 

When the record is out, be sure and send me a copy, with bill 
for my share of the expense. 






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GEORGE B. DURELL, 

President Harriman Hoe & Tool Co., 

Harriman, Tenn. 
Has been successful business man in Tennessee. Has worked 
so hard that he has not been very well for the past year. In May 
he wrote: "I am trying to arrange to be at the coming class 
reunion, and hope that I will succeed." But he was unable to be 
present. 

DUNCAN EDWARDS, 

EtfiftAfi»e"& Bryan, Lawyers, 

31 Nassau Street, New York City. 
At the class supper in June Edwards gave much and valuable 
information about half a dozen men. Of himself, all he would 
say was : "I have been in New York. It is not of any interest to 
you to hear what I have been doing. I have just been chasing 
accounts, debtors, trying to earn a living in trying to see where 
other men have made mistakes and rectifying them, and making 
others for other men to rectify. I have come across a good many 
Princeton men. New York seems to be a sort of a highway." 

The fact is, that Edwards is a very successful lawyer. Also, the 
daily public prints often give accounts of his prowess in the game 
of golf. 

Rev. FRANK GATES ELLETT, 
v 71 Milwaukee Avenue, W., Detroit, Mich. 

Being a Presbyterian parson I am much given to travel, my 
babes and my goods always accompanying me. I have not been 



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in Europe or much out of Michigan. For five years I have been 
the most indigent preacher on the most cultured and wealthy ave- 
nue of the beautiful city of Detroit. Married ? Of course ! Did 
I not say way back in '85 that a man who failed in every recita- 
tion in college should not trust himself to live alone out of town ? 
Mrs. Ellett and I, plus the children, make a good round half 
dozen. I have been a candidate for several pulpits, besides secur- 
ing, by some fine mismanagement, an election to attend the Gen- 
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Have been Moderator 
of Presbytery, but failed on election in Synod. Yes, I wrote a 
book: first edition disposed of in one day — was burned in big 
fire. My next venture is just on its way to press. Been writing 
up a decent sort of future punishment. I saw no indications of 
fire in my visions, but advise '85 men to run no risks. Have seen 
no '85 men, but believe Jones is in Detroit. I extend a hearty 
invitation to all the fellows to come and hear me preach ; they will 
be sure to agree that as Aaron Burr never failed in recitations but 
failed ever afterward, even so did Ellett, who ever failed in reci- 
tations, never failed afterward. 

GEOEGE E. ETTER, 

Re4ju-Estate & Insurance, 
213 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Have not traveled out of the United States. 

4. Married in Philadelphia, Pa., March 9, 1894, to Lucy S. 
McGonigal. Children are : Benjamin Franklin Etter, Jr., De- 
cember 17, 1894; Katharine Etter, May 19, 1896 ; Eleanor Lind- 
say Etter, August 16, 1898. 

5. Yes. Was candidate for School Director from Fourth 
Ward, Harrisburg, in February, 1899, and defeated my opponent, 
who had been in School Board for eighteen years, by good ma- 
jority. My term expires in June, 1902. This was my only polit- 
ical venture. 



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6. None, except that I have been treasurer of several small 
organizations for a number of years. 

7. Rarely see any '85 men, except such as temporarily visit 
Harrisburg — Brown, Pershing and others I cannot recall. 

8. Have no suggestions to offer, except that I hope I may have 
better luck than in the past and be able to be with you. 

Etter has been Secretary of the Harrisburg Alumni Associa- 
tion for some time. 

^ F. B. FAITOUTE, 

•O range and First Olieels, Newark, .N. ' J . 



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JANON FISHER, 

Gf¥ik and Consulting Engineer, 
-*i& Equitable Building, Baltimore, Md. 
Since leaving college I have been engaged almost continuously 
in work of an engineering character. I began work in the fall of 
1886 as Professor McMillan's assistant, in charge of surveys and 
construction of a sewerage system for the New Jersey State In- 
sane Asylum at Morris Plains. The following spring I went to 
northwestern Colorado to try my fortunes as a "cow puncher." 
The summer spent there, though a hard one, was not without 
profit and pleasure. However, concluding there was a better field 
for employment in the East, I returned home quite willingly. I 
immediately took up railroad work, and since then have been em- 
ployed in various capacities, from rodman to resident engineer on 
railroad construction and surveys, with an interval of several 
months' travel in Europe, by the following railroad companies: 
Maryland Central, Pennsylvania, Berkeley Springs and Potomac, 
West Virginia Central and Pittsburg, Kentucky Midland, Cin- 
cinnati, Washington and Baltimore, Roanoke and Southern, Bal- 
timore and Ohio, and Baltimore Belt. 



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In June, 1895, I was appointed, by a Democratic Mayor, As- 
sistant City Commissioner (Assistant City Engineer in other 
cities) of Baltimore, and two months later City Commissioner. 
In January, 1897, the incoming Eepublican Mayor, having left 
my name out of his "green bag," I moved to Norfolk, where I 
spent a year as President of the Norfolk Street Eailway Co. Ke- 
turning to Baltimore, I took up the general practise of my pro- 
fession, which is still my occupation. My residence is at Buxton, 
Baltimore County, nine miles from the city. I married July 6, 
1895, Miss Katharine Le Moyne, of Melvale, Md. (formerly of 
Chicago). Billy Mcllvaine and I married sisters. I have two 
children — Janon, Jr., born January 4, 1898, and Katharine Le 
Moyne, Jr., born March 21, 1900. 

I desire to say I consider that our reunion this year was an un- 
qualified success, and while I missed a number of familiar faces 
I hoped and expected to see, still I enjoyed every minute of the 
time at Princeton, and would be glad of more frequent reunions 
in future. I would willingly attend another reunion in 1903, and 
would so vote. 

I feel, and so also, I believe, does every member of the class 
who was present at the reunion, that our hearty thanks are due 
the officers of the class, more especially the President and Secre- 
tary, for their energy and thoughtf ulness in providing so well for 
our pleasure and comfort. 

/ J. C. FOLTZ, M.D., 

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Is a prosperous physician, and has been seen by several '85 men. 

JOSEPH C. FOSTEK, 

Care Stearns & Foster Co., 

120 East Canal Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



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/ Is Secretary of the Stearns & Foster Co., cotton manufacturers. 
Was married at Seneca Falls, N. Y., October 14, 1886, to Miss 
Frances Mary Livingston Hubbell, and has two daughters — 
Laura Walcott, October 1, 1887; Julia Eesor, July 2, 1890. 

* W. R. FOSTER, 

Cake Stearns & Foster Co., 
v/ 120 East Canal Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Is in the same business as his brother. 

y Dr. A. BRADLEY GAITHER, 

529 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 

On receiving my diploma at Princeton I at once began the 
study of medicine in the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, 
and received my M.D. in 1887. The honor list in a class of about 
one hundred consisted of the first seven men, and Gamble and I 
both had the good fortune to be included in it. I was then ap- 
pointed a resident physician at Bay View Hospital, near Balti- 
more, but resigned in a few months to go to Europe with Gamble. 

We studied medicine and surgery in Berlin, Dresden and 
Vienna, and had a very interesting and instructive experience. 
At the end of a year I managed to shake Gamble off, after six 
years of close companionship, and returned to America alone, 
leaving Gamble to absorb what little moisture of medical knowl- 
edge there might remain in Europe after the year's exposure to 
the heat of my brilliant intellect. It may be well to add that he 
found several large areas of high humidity. While in Berlin I 
had the good fortune to meet Miss Jeannie D. Scott, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., who was spending the winter there during a tour of 
Europe. As she had no opportunity to look up my reputation 
and nothing to judge from save my charming appearance, I had 
exceptional advantages, which I pressed to the fullest extent, with 



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the result that we were married the next year at Attica, N. Y., on 
October 4, 1888. 

In 1890 I obtained an appointment as fourth assistant in the 
Genito-Urinary Department of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Dis- 
pensary, and remained there eight years, the last two years as 
head of the department. While there I assisted Dr. James Brown 
in the first operation ever performed in the world for the catheter- 
ization of the ureter in the male, and shortly after performed the 
operation myself. Since Dr. Brown's death I am the first living 
man to have done this operation. 

I am Surgeon, with the rank of Major, in the Maryland Na- 
tional Guard, but have not seen any active service, as my regiment 
was not ordered out in the Spanish War. 

I am leading a quiet life in Baltimore, practising the specialty 
of Genito-Urinary Surgery, and endeavoring to add something to 
the knowledge of the profession on this subject. 

My address is No. 529 North Charles Street, and while I cannot 
literally state that the "latch string hangs out," I can say that, 
although the electric bell is always kept in good order, it is not 
necessary for an '85 man to ring, but just walk in, hang up his 
hat and put his feet on the mantle-piece. 

y CAEY B. GAMBLE, Jr., M.D., 

26 West Biddle Street, Baltimore, Md. 
After leaving college I studied medicine at the University 
of Maryland and graduated in 1887. After that I spent six 
months in a large hospital as interne, and then went abroad 
and worked in the Berlin and Vienna medical schools for a year 
and a half. On my return I obtained an appointment in the out- 
patient department of the Johns Hopkins Hospital ; worked there 
and in the laboratories for eight years, and was then appointed 
physician in chief to St. Joseph's Hospital, where I remained 
until last fall. In the spring I was elected Associate Professor of 



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Clinical Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 
addition, I am a member of the State Board of Medical Exam- 
iners, and President of the Baltimore Medical and Surgical Asso- 
ciation. Such, with what success it has been my fortune to obtain 
in private practise, has been my medical history. 

I was married in New York, December 10, 1896, to Miss Vera 
Jenness, of Portsmouth, N. H. We have one child, a girl two 
years old. As regards the next reunion, I am of the opinion that 
the whole thing had best be left in your hands. You made a great 
success of the last one. How much I enjoyed the meeting it is im- 
possible for me to tell you. The kindliness, fellow-interest and 
pride the fellows had in each other was delightful to see. 



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BENJAMIN H. GASKILL, 

Banker and Broker, 
/\ i 42^Wate»t Street, Philadelphia. 

He has been for some years a broker. He resides at 101 South 
Twenty-first Street. 



0P.¥. GIBSON, ^J, .^iU4 \U r* 






Paris, France. 

In June, 1900, Pershing said: "Gibson has been living in 
Paris ever since he graduated, and I heard from an aunt of his 
that there is no prospect of his ever returning to this country." 

HENEY W. GLEDHILL, 

107 Washington Street, Paterson, N. J. 
In June, 1900, Wilson said : "He is a practising lawyer in Pat- 
erson, and has been successful. He has represented his district in 
the Legislature for three years, and has been quite prominent as 
Republican leader of the House, In 1896 he was not married. 



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HIEAM A. GOOCH, 

©ea*f Princeton- Yale School, 
Drexel Boul. and Forty-first Street, Chicago, 111. 
Has been teaching in Louisville and Chicago for some years. 

-* TEVIS GOODLOE, 

Care Bank of Kentuceiy, 

Louisville, Ky. 

In June, 1900, Cleveland said: "He is married, and has one 
child. He is teller of the Bank of Kentucky." 

<,f,, JOHN L. GEAHAM, 

Address unknown. 

Five years ago it was reported that he was going again to the 
Sandwich Islands, where he had previously been. 

WILLIAM L. GEANBEEY, 

A m mAnAuarr 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Your circular dated the 17th, inclosing memoranda of state- 
ments made by Messrs. Cleveland and Mcllvaine, has been 
received. I am indebted to the gentlemen for their kind expres- 
sions concerning myself. 

The only information which I think would be of interest to 
the other members of the class concerning myself is as follows : 
I am an attorney residing permanently at Nashville, Tenn., and 
have been here ever since leaving Princeton. I am married and 
have two children, both boys. I have never taken any active 
part in politics ; have never been a candidate for and never oc- 
cupied any political office. 



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W. J. GREENE, 

Cedar Rvpiis Electric Light and Power Co., 
Cedar Rapids, la. 
I answer as follows : 

1. I reside at Cedar Rapids, la., and am manager of the Cedar 
Rapids Electric Light and Power Co. 

2. I have lived at Cedar Rapids, la., except for six months in 
1886, when I was in Nebraska. Travels at home have been very 
limited, and abroad none. 

3. Manager of Cedar Rapids Electric Light and Power Co. 
since January 1, 1887. Prior to that time spent a few months on 
a ranch in Nebraska, about nine months in an engineer's office, 
and balance of the time in the real estate business. 

4. Was married October 7, 1896, and have one boy, born No- 
vember 10, 1897. 

5. Have taken no active part in politics, nor been a candidate 
for nor occupied any political office. 

6. Positions of honor and trust have been scarce. The only 
one that I can now record is President of Iowa Electrical Asso- 
ciation. 

7. It is rarely that I run across an '85 man, unless it be during 
an occasional visit to the East. 

8. It having been my misfortune to have missed every reunion 
since graduation, I can offer no suggestions regarding the next. 

1^ FRANK GRIFFITH, 

Johannesburg Reduction Works, 
Johannesburg, Cal. f(j^f M H *"P * 

In reply to your circular letter I enclose a few data for inser- 
tion in the record, which I shall be more than pleased to see. My 
occupations and places of residence have been so varied that 1 
shall omit them, I think, but I want to get in the book anyway. 

My permanent address for purposes of reference had better re- 
main as the catalogue has it, Jacksonville, 111., although my pres- 
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on the Great Mojave Desert, about one hundred miles from Los 
Angeles, Cal. Have lived in Omaha, Neb., Oklahoma and Los 
Angeles since graduation, traveling being confined to various 
trips to and from the East, once coming from New York to San 
Francisco via Panama. 

Was married August 23, 1893, in Jacksonville, 111. Have taken 
no part in politics, and beyond offices in mining companies, which 
may be more a matter of investment than of trust, have had none. 
Occasionally meet Berry and Kittle in San Francisco, and am in 
several mining ventures with Hicks, '84. 

Have often tried to be present at the reunions, but have always 
been prevented. Hope may have better luck next time. 

WILLIAM M. HALL, Jr., 

1003-1005 Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

2. Eesidence since leaving Princeton: Pittsburgh. 

3. Occupation: Admitted to the bar December 28, 1886. 

4. Marriage and children: Married October 20, 1897, to Miss 
Augusta Day Lyon, of Indianapolis ; children, Augusta Day, born 
September 13, 1898; Eleanor Cramer, born June 10, 1900. 

5. Politics : No active part — held no office. 

6. Positions: President of The University Club, Pittsburgh, 
1895-6, 1896-7. 

7. As to other men : I can say that Shea is President of the 
Pittsburgh Dry Goods Company, the largest house of its kind in 
Pittsburgh ; a successful and prominent business man. Clark is 
with E. P. Eemington, newspaper advertising, Pittsburgh, in a 
responsible position. 

CHAELES D. HALSEY, 

TOLER & HALSEY, FriTTF¥Ti1i Mm.iRliftTfflBfl 

Mills Building, New York. 
Since receiving your first communication some weeks ago, I 
have been out of town, consequently have had no time to take the 



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matter up. Your second notice found in my office this morning, 
and here are the answers to your questions for the Class History : 

1. Residence, 5 East Thirty-third street, New York city; busi- 
ness, Toler & Halsey, Mills Building, Banker and broker. 

2. Possibly your records may show that owing to weakness of 
my eyes I was compelled to be out of Princeton for a year and 
consequently graduated with the Class of '86. After graduation 
I took up my residence in Newark, N. J., my old home, where I 
resided until I was married in November, '95, when I moved to 
the Burlington, West Thirtieth street, New York. The following 
fall I moved to No. 102 East Thirty-fifth street, where I resided 
for two years, and then took up my present residence at No. 5 
East Thirty-third street. As to the extent of travels, in April, '88, 
I went with a party on the English steam yacht "Mohican" 
(which the previous year had acted as convoy to the "Thistle" 
when crossing the ocean to race the "Volunteer") on her return 
trip to home waters. After ten days' voyage we stopped at Ponta 
del Garda, Island Miguel, Azores, for a few days, and then voy- 
aged to the Clyde, where we left the yacht and traveled through 
Scotland, England, crossing the English Channel to Paris, then 
a short trip through Holland, returning to England and then to 
this country on the S. S. Etruria. Last August I went with a 
party on the steam yacht "May," owned by Mr. Alexander Van 
Rensselaer, going first to Newport, then Halifax, Cape Breton, 
Prince Edward Island, Challeur Bay, the St. Lawrence, Saguenay 
river, then to Quebec, where we took the train for New York. 

3. A week after my graduation in June, '86, I took a position 
on the engineer corps on the Penna. R. R. Co., with headquarters 
at Jersey City. I continued with the Penna. R. R. Co. until 
April, '94, when I joined my old class-mate and room-mate, 
Henry P. Toler, in the firm of Toler & Halsey. 

4. I was married November 20, 1895, at the Episcopal Church 
at Burlington, N. J., and have since then been blessed with two 



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fine boys, both candidates for Princeton in the next century. 
The first, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Halsey, was born October 
11, 1896, and the second, Charles Day Halsey, Jr., on January 
9, 1900. 

5. Have taken very little part in politics except to back up 
my warm friend and Princeton enthusiast, Arthur P. Sturgis, 
last spring, but have not occupied any political office, and trust 
that I never shall. 

6. Have held no particular position of honor or trust except 
Secretary and Treasurer of several corporations. 

7. Have no particulars to give of any '85 men, but see quite 
often the men in and about New York University and Prince- 
ton Clubs. 

8. Have no particular suggestions to make regarding our next 
reunion, and can only say I regret extremely that I could not 
be with the boys last June, and certainly hope that whenever and 
wherever the next reunion is held I shall be with you. 

In June Halsey wrote : I deeply regret I cannot be with the 
boys, and the best I can do is to send you a barrel of Pilsner, which 
please find enclosed (one enclosure received). Wish you would 
please offer a toast at the "round table" for me, and tell the boys 
how much I regret not being able to be with them. 

;- ALEXANDER HARDCASTLE, Jr., 



1 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Md. 

In March, 1900, Hardcastle wrote : I anticipate with a great 
deal of pleasure the meeting with you and our other class-mates 
in June, and shall be on hand if it is at all possible. With kindest 
regards, and anticipating a great deal of pleasure in meeting the 
boys again. 

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J. BOEDEN HAEEIMAN, 

Care of H. G. Campbell & Co., 

11 Wall Street, New York City. 
In May, 1900, Harriman wrote : I enclose my check for $25.00. 
I am delighted to subscribe. I am surely coming down, but can- 
not say when, exactly. I will look up the class on my arrival. 

JOHN M. HAEEIS, 

Attorney and Counselor-at-Law, 
609 Connell Building, Scranton, Pa. 
I have your circular of July 17 before me, requesting answers 
to certain questions. Would respectfully submit the following: 

4. Not married. 

5. I have taken an active part in State and county politics, but 
have never been a candidate for any public office. 

6. I was appointed a member of the Board of Examiners for 
admission to the bar of Lackawanna county, in January, 1895; 
was reappointed in January, 1898, it being the first instance in 
which a member of the Board of Examiners was reappointed ; was 
appointed a member of the Committee on Legal Education of the 
State Bar Association, in June, 1899; was appointed a member 
of a sub-committee to draft a bill to be submitted to the next Leg- 
islature of Pennsylvania, providing for the appointment by the 
Supreme Court of the State of a Board of Law Examiners, and 
at the meeting of the same association, in June, 1900, at Cam- 
bridge Springs, Pa., was appointed by the President of the Bar 
Association of the State, with others, to memorialize the Superior 
and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, with reference to the bill 
submitted to the Bar Association, providing for uniformity of 
legal education and admission to the bar ; was also appointed on a 
committee to draft a bill providing for the codification of the 
criminal code of Pennsylvania, with reference to smaller crimes 
and misdemeanors. I do not recall anything else in my profes- 



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sional life that is worth submission at this time. I forgot to say 
that I have been engaged by the Kepublican National Committee 
to speak in Maine and the New England States, beginning Mon- 
day, August 27, 1900. 

JAMES E. HAYES, 

Princeton, N. J. 

Am glad the record appears a probability. My history for the 
past fifteen years is quite commonplace. My first effort was as 
principal of a public school at Petersburgh, Cape May county, 
N. J. My corps of teachers consisted of myself ; salary, $45 per 
month; and, a coincidence, number of pupils, 85. 

My prospects brightened during that year for the adoption of 
the legal profession and its pursuit in New Orleans. Next year 
found me in the Columbia Law School and law office of Peck- 
ham & Tyler, Trinity Building, New York city. During my first 
year at Columbia my friend, who had assured me of his support 
and great influence in New Orleans, died, very suddenly. My 
slender resources made a longer stay at Columbia impracticable ; 
I was forced to return to New Jersey ; and the South will never 
know what she missed. I entered the office of Mr. Bayard Stock- 
ton in 1887 and was admitted to the bar in 1888. I have plied 
my trade, with meagre returns, between Trenton and Princeton, 
ever since. Am yet unmarried. Have never obtained political 
boosting. The subsidence of the Democratic party in my native 
town, county and State, knocked all hopes in that direction into 
smithereens. During Cleveland's second administration, how- 
ever, my appointment to an attorneyship in the judiciary looked 
a foregone conclusion. I had the support of both Senators, the 
leading members of the Mercer Bar and of the late Chancellor 
McCill. "But there were others." I meet many '85 men, of 
course, seeing that I enjoy the distinction of being the "nest egg'' 



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of the class in Princeton, Thompson and Coney not being eligible 
to that honorary office. Due visited me last summer, and is, I 
believe, an unqualified success. So may each and all the others 
be ! As for myself, I can only shout, "Princeton, long may she 
wave !" 

C. A. HEALEY, 

28 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga. 
In March, 1900, Healey wrote : I will be employed in putting 
up a roller flour mill at the time of the class reunion. It is fort) 
miles below here. If I get it done in time I will come. It depends 
on when I can get the machinery. 



^ C. T. HOOD,M.D., 

«-06MfoBsoaJikeet, Chicago, 111. / a. > l ' 

~No report. 

JAMES E. HUGHES, 

AssaesAgB Principal, Bjelxezonie-Ao^dsm^ 
^ Belief onte, Pa. 

In September, 1885, 1 was called to the position of instructor in 
the Bellefonte Academy. The departments assigned me were 
those of the ancient and modern languages. Judging from the 
work of the boys and girls who have represented us in the leading 
colleges during the past fifteen years, I feel I am justified in say- 
ing that my efforts in my chosen profession have been crowned 
with happy success. I am in love with the work and my enthu- 
siasm in the effort to keep the Bellefonte Academy up to a high 
standard led the trustees of the institution several years ago to 
elevate me to the position of Associate Principal. For several 
years I delighted in military life, and was Fourth Sergeant of the 
home company of the N. G. P., when I found it necessary to retire 
by reason of increasing responsibilities. Writing for newspapers 



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and traveling about the country for sketches of the scenery have 
engaged my attention. A little book for private circulation en- 
titled "Chapters from Camp Life," by "Romance," was hastily 
prepared by me in the summer of 1889. During ex-Governor 
Hastings' first campaign to secure the Gubernatorial nomination, 
several songs composed by the subject of this sketch were sung by 
hundreds. In the summer of 1897 I was requested by Mr. Frank 
Ober, captain of the Y. M. C. A. camp at Northfield, to write a 
song and dedicate it to Northfield. I composed a few verses set 
to the tune of "Juanita," and they were sung one morning when 
the lamented Moody led our meeting in camp. My interest in re- 
ligious affairs has never waned. I have been Director, Vice-Presi- 
dent and President of the Y. M. C. A., and their State Conven- 
tions have found me at times addressing, by request, some of the 
important meetings. I have just obtained a patent in this country 
and England on an educational game. On July 12, 1899, I was 
married to Miss Mary Green, of Belief onte, and we are enjoying 
life together now. We have no children, but 

If I ever have a boy to call me "Pau," 

He shall early learn to shout for "Old Nassau." 

J. L. HUMPHREY, 

No address. 
At the class supper in June, 1900, Shea and John Dickey said 
that they thought he was dead ; but Brown thought he was not. 

W. F. JACKSON, 

656 High Street, Newark, N. J. 
In June, 1900, he said : One week after I left college I entered 
the banking house of Brown Bros, and remained a year. After 
that I was in a printing company for three months; then for 
about two years in a storage battery concern. Then I went into 
the coal and varnish business, in which I am still interested. I 



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am not so active in either one that my time is fully occupied, and 
for the last few years I have had considerable opportunity to 
travel. A year ago I went on the Mediterranean trip, to Egypt, 
Palestine, Greece and Italy, and last winter I went South. Made 
money in some things. Altogether, I am ahead of the game. I 
am not married. 

J. G. JENNINGS, /f l/ff 

BrardyVSendr f*a. 

No report. 
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^ JOHN E. JOHNSON, Jr., 

105 Croton Avenue, Sing Sing, N. Y. 
His brother writes : 

1. He is connected in business with Messrs. Hard and Band, 
of this city, importers of coffee. 

2. and 3. After leaving Princeton he spent five or six years at 
home. Since then he has taken a number of trips in connection 
with his business, visiting Mexico twice, spending two years in 
London, one year in Java, and four years in Brazil, where he is 
residing at present. My brother has been too wise to get married 
or take part in politics or engage in any similar foolish pastime. 

\J HENEY K. JONES, 

E bal Es ' T£TE ~3raHboft**e> 

Jones Building, 242 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich, 
Your letter and the '85 circular reached me yesterday. It is 
a pleasure to know there is to be an '85 record, and I hasten to 
send you some uninteresting information regarding myself. My 
permanent address is 242 Griswold street, Detroit, and my busi- 
ness, real estate and loans. I have been here since graduation 
with the exception of a short trip to California and Europe. I 
have two children, Anna Sanger, born April 28, '92, and Henry 



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Kirkland, Jr., born January 15, '95. I have taken no active part 
in politics nor have I occupied any positions worth mentioning. 
In short, thus far my career has been uneventful. A natural 
course of events has placed me here, where I have been ever since 
graduation, and, therefore, I pursue my way quietly and evenly. 
Few '85 men have been here and it looks as if few would come in 
the future. My occasional trips East do not afford many chances 
to see '85 men, so that I have no news of any of them not known 
to the rest. I trust this account will fill up the space allotted to 
me. I hope that the future may bring '85 men here in greater 
numbers. 

^ Eev. ALFORD KELLEY, 
I Frazer, Pa. 

There has been little change in the composition or current of 
my life since I last wrote. After leaving Princeton at the end 
of the Sophomore year in '83 I spent fifteen months in busness 
as a peripatetic intelligence dispensator, alias book agent. Im- 
proved in health by talking other people to death. I returned to 
college in the fall of '84 and entered the class of '86, with whose 
members I graduated in due course of time. In the following 
September I entered the Seminary in Princeton. Have preached 
at Sand Beach, Mich., Port Hope, Madison, S. Dak., Baltimore, 
Nicholson, Pa., Mooredale, Pa., and Frazer, Pa., where I am at 
present. I am still a bachelor, still regretting my celibacy. I 
think a man who prefers single life is defective mentally or mor- 
ally, or both. I am unmarried, not from my choice, but rather 
from the choice of the other possible members of the firm of 
Kelley & Kelley. "Barkis is willin'," but the various prospective 
Peggottys have always been either engaged, too old, too young, 
or unwilling to marry a poor parson. I have been active for the 
Prohibition party in politics, believing the abolition of the legal- 
ized liquor traffic — the cause of nearly all crime and taxation — to 



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be the paramount economic and moral question of the day. I 
have written numerous articles for religious papers, besides hav- 
ing published other contributions in the secular press. Am now 
writing a history of this church. I am President of the Chester 
County Sabbath-school Association, in which capacity I plan for 
and speak at frequent conventions for consultation upon Sabbath- 
school work. I also address Christian Endeavor rallies through- 
out the county. 

E. McL. KEMPHALL, 

Care of Sweetser, Pembrook & Co., 

Cleveland, 0. 
In June, 1900, Shea said: I saw him not more than a month 
ago. Buzzy was looking very well. A little lined about the eyes, 
but still the same Buzzy. 

K W. S. KITTLE, ~7^&l£ 

Pacific-Union Club, 
San Francisco, Cal. 
In June, 1900, Edwards said that he had seen him. 

CHARLES R. KNOX, 

180 Lexington Avenue, New York City. 
(Pokftti 'S teaaanty -N. J. ) 
As I said at the class supper, in the selection of an occupation 
I did a little Spanish gunning. I aimed at Princeton Seminary 
and hit the National Bank of the Republic, No. 2 Wall street. 
Banking led me to the American Bankers' Association, where the 
clerical work of correcting proof led me later to the teaching of 
college preparatory English in the Cornwall Heights School, at 
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. There I remained seven years. With 
my recommendation in my pocket, I left Cornwall in June, 1900, 
feeling, after considering what I had taught the boys and what 



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they had taught me, that I was in sympathy with the sentiment 
expressed by Mark Twain, that a man who has instructed youth 
efficiently for twenty-five years ought to have the title of Major- 
General. No matter what title I don't get, it is still my purpose 
to continue teaching. I am at present in New York endeavoring 
to settle here. My present address is subject to change, but any 
communication addressed to the Princeton Club will reach me. 

I occasionally see the firm, Edwards & Bryan, in their law 
offices in this city. Last Thursday I heard Ed. Wilson make a 
campaign speech that did credit to the class. I see Mumford 
and Mrs. Mumford, and have seen one of his two children. John 
has been to Persia during the summer to obtain information 
about Oriental rugs. A book on that subject, published by Lou- 
brier & Co., is now in press. 

H. M. LAMBERTON, 
Winona, Minn. 
In June, 1900, W. Mcllvaine said: I saw him about a year 
ago in the office. He was doing very well at the law business. He 
has not changed much ; has lost all his hair, and is rather stouter 
than he was. 

Prof. E. S. LAWRENCE, Ph.D., 
Hanover College, 
Hanover, Ind. 

I was very sorry that I could not attend the reunion of '85 at 
Princeton in June. I will answer your questions regarding my 
work. At present I am Professor of Mathematics at Hanover 
College, Hanover, Ind., having been elected to this place in Jan- 
uary. I take charge of the work next month, September, 1900. 

Since leaving Princeton I have been in Emporia, Kas., teach- 
ing mathematics, Greek, and, during the last year, pedagogy. I 
have been President of the School Board of Emporia, Kas., and 



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a member of the Kansas State Board of Education, as a represen- 
tative of the denominational colleges in the State. I resigned 
this position on coming to Indiana. 

I was married January 1, 1889, to Arline M. Lewis, of Merry- 
all, Pa., and have three children — Florence E., June 11, 1890; 
James E., September 29, 1895; Mary A., March 27, 1900. 

J So far as my political experiences are concerned, I have been 

a delegate to many conventions and was twice elected a member 
of the Board of Education in Emporia after a hot political fight. 
I have not seen any class-mates for several years and know little 
about them. Perhaps in my new location I may come into touch 
with some of them. My ideas regarding class reunions are some- 
what at variance with the prevailing custom, but I have not been 
near enough to give any successful criticism. Give my most 
cordial greetings to all the fellows. 
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>- W. L. LAWTON,Jr., 
Kingston, N. Y. 
No report. 

Rev. S. H. LEEPER, 

v Coatesville, Pa. 

It was a painful disappointment to me not to be able to join 
you all at the reunion, and a careful study of our class picture 
was a tantalizing substitute for the glad greetings, songs and 
cheers you all enjoyed. I am hardly able to wait patiently for 
each man's short story of himself to appear in the Record. I wish 
I could say more that would add to the glory of ? 85. I graduated 
from Princeton Theological Seminary in ? 88. Before graduating 
I received a call from the Presbyterian Church of New London, 
but did not accept it. The summer after graduating I supplied 
the pulpit of the Boundary Avenue Presbyterian Church of Bal- 
timore, returning to the Seminary in September to take a P. I}. 



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course. In June, '89, 1 became pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
of Mount Holly, N. J., and spent six happy years there, seeing the 
church double its membership. I treasure a paper given me by 
the Mount Holly congregation very largely signed, to assure me 
that they could give me a more unanimous call to remain with 
them than any other congregation could to come to another field. 
But the call to Coatesville came unsought. It opened to Mrs. 
Leeper and me a way to return to the hills of Pennsylvania which 
we loved, and a physician advising that the change might be 
beneficial to us, we came to Coatesville. We live in the manse, a 
pretty and comfortable building which stands beside the church. 
There we are always ready to welcome a Princeton man. June 5, 
1890, 1 was married to Laura Ferguson, Wells College, '84. We 
have three children — Mary, aged 9 years, weight 70; Harper, 
aged 7 \ years, weight 51 ; Amanda, aged 3 years, weight 30. I 
am taking a nine-weeks' vacation this summer and yesterday two 
of my children and I had five miles of mountain climbing, our 
daily average. As to question six, I might answer : One of the 
Baird Prize judges, '88; one of the Lynde Debate judges, '95; 
Moderator of the Monmouth Presbytery, ? 95; the usual honors 
which come to a pastor. A few sermons and addresses have been 
printed by request. The greatest honor is to be permitted to 
preach to a large congregation. My travels have been very lim- 
ited, a trip to Bermuda and several trips to the Northwestern 
States. I have frequently seen Chalmers Umstead, when visiting 
his mother, who now lives in our town. He is now in very poor 
health. (Died October 23, 1900.) I want the next reunion to be 
at the earliest practicable date. 

/ Rev. JOHN C. LORD, 

Navesink, N. J. 
In response to the request of the Executive Committee of the 
Class of '85, I gladly answer the following questions: In the 



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autumn of the year of our graduation I went to the General Theo- 
logical Seminary of the Episcopal Church, which is at Chelsea 
Square, New York city. There I spent three years in preparing 
for holy orders, to which I was admitted on the Trinity Sunday 
of 1888, being then ordained Deacon. Almost immediately after 
my ordination I went abroad with the Eight Rev. Thomas A. 
Starkey, Bishop of Newark, and traveled with the Bishop and 
Mrs. Starkey until the following November, when we returned 
home. While abroad I acted as chaplain to the Bishop at the 
third Lambeth Conference in London. On my return to America 
I was appointed curate of Grace Church, Jersey City, where I 
spent two years. Then I accepted my first charge, the Church 
of the Mediator, at Edgewater, N. J., where I remained a year 
and a half. I then accepted a call to the place of assistant min- 
ister at Christ Church, Elizabeth, and remained there eighteen 
months. Having during this time become engaged to be married, 
I remained out of active work for nearly a year, when I was asked 
to become assistant at All Saints' Memorial Church, Navesink, 
N. J. On October 10, 1894, 1 was married to Miss Louise Town- 
send, of Elizabeth. The next year I became rector of All Saints 
Church, Navesink, N. J., which is my present address. 

Peof. WILLIAM H. LYNCH, %LA,[yo^ii /Ki^^^^t- 
Eair-HrH , Ceci l County, M e L 
In June, 1900, Penick said : He took the position I left in ; 89. 
In '95 he visited me at my home for two weeks. I have heard 
that he had some mining land, and he may have a verj/^good 
thing. 

Prof. D. H. McALPIN, Jr., M.D., J U 

Carnegie? Laboratory, >3&& East < &6th Street, New York City. 

Your very kind tho' brief note of inquiry came to hand the 

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the record. You know all the answers, so what good is it for me 
to write them again ? See ! ! 

I still live at No. 9 East Fifty-fifth street, where I have my 
office and see patients until 9 :30 every morning, and by appoint- 
ment if that hour is too early for them. After 9 :30 has arrived 
I journey down to the Carnegie Laboratory, 338 East Twenty- 
sixth street, where I hold a professorship in the University and 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, working all the rest of the 
day either with my students in the college or at the hospital. 
Since we graduated in '85 I have been most of the time in New 
York, graduating from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in '88. 
I received appointment to Bellevue Hospital as Interne on the 
medical side, where I spent two years in the wards. After leaving 
the hospital I received an appointment as instructor in the Belle- 
vue Medical College, also appointment as visiting physician to 
Bellevue Dispensary and the Almshouse Hospital. In 1895 I 
was appointed Professor of Gross Pathology and also received 
appointment as attending physician to City Hospital, both of 
which positions I still hold. Most of my summers have been spent 
in Europe, either traveling for pleasure or doing work in medical 
branches. In December, '95, married. In May, '97, a son was 
born and we named him David Hunter McAlpin III. In June, 
1900, a daughter was born; her name is Geraldine Rockefeller 
McAlpin. All my political intriguing was exhausted while an 
undergraduate, and have attempted nothing in this line since 
graduation. 

I occasionally see Edwards, Birdie, Peach Burger and the other 
New York and New Jersey men, and once in a while I see the 
Philadelphia crowd. But we are so quiet in New York that after 
meeting any of our Philadelphia or Baltimore class-mates we 
always have to rest for several days, as they travel at a very rapid 
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I enjoyed the last reunion more than any other reunion our 
class ever held. I attribute it to three facts : 1st, Because it was 
the best managed reunion '85 has ever held; 2d, Because I had 
nothing to do with it except in an advisory capacity ; 3d, Because 
the pervading spirit was good-fellowship. Everybody was boss 
and consequently everybody had a good time and nobody disputed 
anybody's authority or right to boss. Everyone was willing to 
be bossed if he, too, could boss. I favor General Miles and Adju- 
tant-General Thompson every time, and we cannot as a class 
thank them too strongly or too earnestly for the regeneration of 
the class spirit of '85. This spirit was in evidence for the first 
time since our graduation and in such measure as to be a source 
of pride to every '85 man. Good-by, Old Boys ! May we have 
another reunion soon, and may we all get back to shake each 
other's hands, and with smiling faces and tearful eyes, choke 
down that big lump which rises in one's throat as we think of the 
bygone days of '85. With love and good wishes to all. 



Prof. CHARLES FLINT McCLUMPHA, 

The University of Minnesota, 

Minneapolis, Minn. 
After studying in Germany, McClumpha received the degree of 
Ph.D. at Leipsic in 1888. He afterward taught English at Bryn 
Mawr College and at the University of Minnesota, where he now 
is. Often he spends his summer vacations in Europe. He wrote 
that he was unable to come to the reunion in June because during 
that month he was going to sail down the Mississippi to New 
Orleans, and thence to New York. 

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Bel Air, Md. 
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JOHN B. McFERRAN, Jr., 
Crescent Hill, Ky. 
Yours of 17th July received, and I will give you the "best I 
have in the shop,", which is not much. My permanent address is 
as above. I have lived in Nashville, Tenn., Louisville, and county 
of Jefferson since leaving Princeton. I was engaged in the pro- 
vision business while in Nashville, and also in Louisville, until 
1890, when I came to this place and have been endeavoring to 
hold down a farm and raise finely bred trotting stock. While at 
the latter business I managed to get hold of a good colt and estab- 
lished a record for two-year-old trotters. The breeding business 
proving unprofitable, I sold out in 1898, and have been doing 
some general farming since. I was married November 15, 1894, 
to Miss Josephine Preston Barr, sister of our classmate, John W. 
Barr, Jr. We have two fine boys — John B., Jr., born September 
26, 1895, and Watson Barr, born October 31, 1898. I have taken 
no active part in politics, and from present prospects do not ex- 
pect to. I waited for some years after graduation for positions 
of honor and trust to come to me. None coming, however, I began 
a diligent search for the same, and, I may add, I am still search- 
ing. Have met very few of the fellows. I have seen Bill Riggs, 
Billy Mcllvaine, Janon Fisher once in a great while, and have 
lived more or less with John Barr since 1882. I have never been 
abroad, but have knocked about our own land some — North, East, 
West and South. I haven't had the pleasure of being present at a 
reunion since 1888, so I can make no suggestion that would be 
worthy of consideration, but trust I may be present at the next 
one, and greatly regretted my inability to be with you last June. 

C. W. McILVAINE, , > j 

London. /(P%^ / h^4 ^^'J Hx&ftty 

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WILLIAM B. McILVAINE, 

Law Offices of -Wilson, Moore ■■&. McIlvaine, 
1605 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 

I regret that I have added to your labors that of punching me 
up on my letter. But here it is. 

I am an attorney practising in Chicago. Was admitted to the 
Illinois bar in March, 1888. My business address is 1605 Mar- 
quette Building, corner of Dearborn and Adams streets; resi- 
dence, 502 North State Street. I have resided in Chicago since 
January, 1886. I traveled in Europe with Este Fisher, '83, from 
June to October, 1885. I spent the summer of 1893 in Scotland. 
It has been a source of constant regret since that I was then ignor- 
ant of the game of golf. My travels in the United States have 
been limited to a yearly trip to Baltimore and vicinity. I spend 
the summers with my family in Charlevoix, Mich. I was married 
on October 15, 1891, to Julia Murray LeMoyne, at her fathers 
residence near Melvale, in Baltimore County, Md. We have four 
children, three girls and one boy : Eomaine LeMoyne Mcllvaine, 
born July 20, 1894; Madeline LeMoyne Mcllvaine, born June 1, 
1896; Priscilla Mcllvaine, born November 1, 1897; William 
Brown Mcllvaine, Jr., born July 12, 1900. 

You will notice that the youngest was born after the reunion. 
He has not been christened, and my wife has not yet obtained my 
consent to the use of my name for him. I hesitate to saddle my- 
self with the proud name of "Old Bill." 

I have voted regularly since graduation. My recollection is 
that I have not missed casting a vote in that time. Otherwise I 
have not been active in politics. I have not been a candidate for 
a political office and have not occupied one. At the present writ- 
ing I can recall no position of honor or trust that has been thrust 
upon me by my admiring fellow citizens, save that of treasurer 
of the Charlevoix Golf Club, which I hold without bond. I play 
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(This is also the secretary's class.) All the '85 men whom I see 
habitually and occasionally have spoken for themselves. 

I am in favor of another reunion soon. I cannot promise to 
attend one before the twentieth in 1905, and I can only make that 
promise conditional upon my being in esse. It is difficult for me 
to go so far in June. But I will make a good effort to attend the 
next one, even if it be next year. The last reunion was a great 
success, and I acknowledge myself to be under a debt of gratitude 
to yourself and your able coadjutor, President Miles, for a most 
pleasurable week. 

H. C. MESEEOLE, 

852 President Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
In June, 1900, Pershing said : Meserole has not been in good 
health for any continued period of time. He has not changed a 
particle. He loves music and plays beautifully. He is not at 
present in any business. He has been in several insurance com- 
panies. 

JOHN B. MILES, 

Eeal Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
See first letter of book. 

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J. H. M|X,LEK, 

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-/- JOHN KIMBEKLEY MUMFOKD, 

301 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

In June, 1900, Wilson said : I am asked to state what I know 

y/ of Mumford. His movements are perhaps better known to Mr. 

Knox and others than to me. I think he is a man of extraordinary 

gifts with his pen. After leaving Princeton he returned to Syra- 



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cuse, N. Y., his native place, and was there employed upon a news- 
paper. He finally came to New York. When the World, under 
the management of Mr. Pulitzer, was just beginning to grow in 
influence, Mumford became a member of the staff. He was very 
soon recognized as a most competent newspaper man and received 
many assignments of importance. When Mr. Harrison was nom- 
inated, Mumford was sent to Indianapolis, Mr. Harrison's home, 
and stayed there until election was over. He made the journey 
from Indianapolis to Washington with Harrison, and had entire 
control of the World bureau in Washington for some time. After- 
wards he severed his connection with the New York World, and 
has since at different times been employed by all the prominent 
newspapers in the city of New York. More recently he has been 
identified with the Journal. He was one of the war correspond- 
ents during the Spanish War, and edited the edition of the Jour- 
nal which was printed in Cuba. He had charge of the Molineux 
case and the international yacht races for the same newspaper. 
From time to time articles appear in the Journal over his signa- 
ture. I understand that within a few weeks he has gone to Ar- 
menia seeking data for a book which he is writing about rugs. I 
have no doubt that the result of his labor will be useful and inter- 
esting. 

^ J. P. MURRAY, 

I&£Q£4&£|^ 

62 and 64 William Street, New York City. 
After leaving college I began my business career in the West, 
at Pierre, S. D. It was not wild nor yet woolly in that town, for 
the boom had come and gone, and life there was a very hum- 
drum affair. I spent about a year there, and then came to New 
York, being Secretary, in name only, of the Western Loan and 
Trust Company. In the course of a year I severed my connec- 
tion with that concern and in the fall of 1887 I entered on the 



life of a bank clerk, which, having given a thorough trial, I can- 
not recommend as a rapid means of getting on in the world. 
Since returning to the East and doing business in New York, I 
have lived at Plainfield, N. J. I am not married, but live with 
my brother at 737 Watchung Avenue, where I may be found at 
almost any time, for I do not travel and have not traveled to any 
extent. I have never taken any part in the politics of the town in. 
which I live and have not had greatness thrust upon me in any 
shape or form. It is very seldom that I see any '85 men, and those 
I most often meet were at the reunion in June, but as an excep- 
tion to the rule let me say that I was much surprised a short time 
ago when a large and portly gentleman whom I met on Park Row 
stopped me with a "Hullo ! Murray. Don't you know me ?" I 
had to confess that of course I ought to, but I did not. It was 
Woodend, but alas ! how changed. When we knew him fifteen 
years ago he would weigh a scant hundred pounds, but now pretty 
close to twice that. He is a physician in Seventy-first Street, and 
he looks very prosperous. My present business address is 62 
William Street, New York, where I am associated with my 
brother in the general insurance brokerage business. Our reunion 
last June was so pleasant that the only suggestion I have to offer 
is that all those who were there at that time come to our next one 
and each bring one of the absentees with him. 

/ Dr. HOWARD GILLESPIE MYERS, 

175 West 73rd Street, New York City. 

1. Physician. 

2. New York City. 

3. As in No. 1. 

4. Married July 28, 1890, at Yonkers, N. Y. Children: Doro- 
thy Kenyon, January 25, 1893 ; Constance, May 19, 1898 ; Dar- 
wood Gillespie, December 22, 1899. 



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5. Very little active part in politics. Unsuccessful candidate 
on Prohibition ticket two or three times. 

6. None worth mentioning. 

MAX B. NAHM, 

Bowling Green, Ky. 
In June, 1900, Penick reports that he has seen him. He started 
to read law, and broke down nervously and went all to pieces. He 
is now in his father's wholesale clothing business, and is getting 
wealthy. 

JOHN HOWAKD NIXON, M.D., 

Nixon Building, 314 St. Louis Street, Springfield, Mo. 
Entered Medical Department University of Pennsylvania Sep- 
tember, 1885. Acting Resident Physician, State Hospital for the 
Insane, Warren, Pa., during summer of 1886. Received degree of 
M.D. from University of Pennsylvania May 1, 1888. Senior 
Resident Physician, City Hospital, Wilkesbarre, Pa., until June, 
1889. Traveled in Europe during the summer of ? 89, and took 
post-graduate studies in the Medical Department University of 
Berlin, Germany, during the fall and winter of '89-90. Settled 
in Springfield, Mo., in 1890, where I have been engaged in the 
practise of medicine ever since. Am unmarried. 

^ PAUL T. NORTON, 

Tjtt; P^ttt, T- Norton Co. Flour and Commission 

MER€>MA*ras, 
Corner 3rd Street and Broadway, Elizabeth, N. J. 

2. Philadelphia about one year, then Elizabeth. Present resi- 
dence, Elizabeth in the winter and Somerset county in the sum- 
mer. From Central Canada to Texas, and from the Atlantic to 
the Rocky Mountains. One trip abroad. 

3. First, in engineer department of a large manufacturing 



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house, then in flour and grain business for myself, and continue 
the same. 

4. In Philadelphia, September 7, 1887. Paul T., Jr., April, 
1889; Dorothy, November, 1890; Kuth, June, 1892; Kenneth, 
March, 1894; Carolyn, August, 1897. 

5. No. 

6. Merely business positions and director in several financial 
institutions. 

7. I seldom meet class members, except Edmund Wilson. Ed 
is a success. He has the largest and best law practise in hi3 
county. He is admired for his talents, honored for his integrity, 
and has many friends and few, if any, enemies. 

EOBEET M. PARKER, 

AeereTa3**~Gs#SRAL Freight Agent, Erie Railroad Co., 

21 Cortlandt Street, New York City. 
My time is so limited that I have been unable to send you a line 
before. There has been little of interest in my history for the past 
ten years. I reside at Newark, N. J., 568 Broad Street, and go 
daily to my office at 21 Cortlandt Street, New York City, where 
I am employed by the Erie Railroad Company as assistant general 
freight agent. I have occupied this position since May, 1895, and 
have been in the railroad's employ since September, 1885. My 
travels have been chiefly on business, but was fortunate enough 
to go to England for a short trip in the summer of 1899. I was 
in London for a week, and in Warwickshire with relatives for 
another week. During the Spanish War I was fortunate enough 
to secure a commission as Battalion Adjutant of 12th N. Y. Vol- 
unteers, and was in Chickamauga Park for three months. Dur- 
ing that time I was made Regimental Quartermaster and fitted 
the regiment out for service, besides getting a clear insight into 
the impossibility of keeping army mules from going astray. I 
had 109 on my hands, and luckily only lost one. I consider this 



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position as coming under the classification of "positions of 
honor" ; in fact, my responsibility was quite enough for me. The 
war over, I returned in September to my duties here. I am still 
unmarried, have taken no part in politics and don't want to. I 
see very little of 1885 men. Jackson lives in Newark, and Ed- 
wards I see on the street occasionally. I was unfortunately un- 
able to attend the 1900 reunion and cannot advise about the next. 
On general principles I am in favor of keeping these reunions 
up and will co-operate in any feasible plan. 

Prof. J. M. PENICK, 

Missouri Valley College, 
Marshall, Mo. 

In June he said : When I left college I got a position in the 
largest school for girls in my State of Missouri. I stayed there 
five years. My salary was raised three times. After five years I 
accepted my present position in Missouri Valley College, where 
I have been ten years. It is one of the best small colleges of the 
West. I presume I will stay there a number of years more. It is 
intensely interesting to us who cannot come often, to hear these 
personal notes. I have spent this present year's leave of absence 
in Princeton. In '92 1 married Miss Gertrude LaMotte, and have 
a couple of boys. 

THED PERSHING, 

G *i ui' G 1 3tT IT "ft "0^ ■Pu#l*iujoi^ 
1229 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

When I graduated I made arrangements to go to Harvard for 
a year's post graduate work in English language and literature, 
but my oculist told me that my only chance for avoiding the 
blind asylum was to give my eyes an absolute rest for at least 
twelve months. Sad experience had taught me by that time to 



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pay very great respect to his advice, so I followed it. In the fall 
of 1886 Coney and I went into the Harrisburg Academy, being 
associated in its ownership and management with Dr. J. F. Seiler, 
a graduate of Yale, who had been running the school for about 
thirty years. I think we ran a pretty good institution. We did 
some good for Princeton, but we didn't do much for ourselves, 
except in the way of gaining experience. We gave it up at the end 
of three years and managed to leave town with our bills all paid. 
I went at once into the text-book business, becoming an agent for 
Allyn & Bacon, of Boston, in the late spring of 1889. In the 
spring of 1891 I became connected with Ginn & Co., publishers 
of school and college text-books, and I have been with them ever 
since. My work now is exclusively with the colleges and high 
schools throughout the State of Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C, 
Princeton and Lawrenceville. My office is at 1229 Arch Street, 
Philadelphia. 

I was married on the 15th of June, 1890, at Shamokin, Pa., to 
Elizabeth Helfenstein, daughter of the late Charles P. Helfen- 
stein, and I have one child, a daughter, named Elizabethed, born 
January 11, 1896. 

I have never taken any active part in politics, consequently I 
have not been a candidate for nor occupied any political office. I 
am a member of the University Club of Philadelphia, of the 
American Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the 
Geographical Club of Philadelphia. 

I would not have missed the reunion last June for anything, 
and I feel that every man who has ever had anything to do with 
'85 who did not get there suffered a very great misfortune. As 
for suggestions concerning the next reunion, all that I ask for is 
that it shall be as good as the last, differing only in being more 
numerously attended. 



K JAMBS POTTER, J*. {^^j^Jcik 

Evening Telegraph, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Was in B. & 0. R. R. for some time and has recently gone into 
the newspaper business. Has been married for some years and 
has several children. He wrote that he was sorry that he could 
not be present at the reunion, but was South at that time. 

X CLARENCE PRICE, 

* Purchasing Agent, Chicago & Alton R. R. Co., 
Prff***. Chicago, 111. 

In June, 1900, Cleveland said: When Price left Princeton he 
went to Montana, bought a ranch and entered politics out there ; 
and, of course, like all good men, he was a Democrat, and got to 
be County Auditor or something like that. After some time he 
returned to Cincinnati and was for a while a broker. Afterward 
he was Custodian of the Government Building, where he was very 
popular, and in six months he was advanced to the position of 
Assistant Postmaster. In that office he satisfied the business men, 
introduced improvements, extended the service in every way, and 
made the office known and rated one of the Al offices in the coun- 
try. The result was that he was brought into contact with the big 
financial men of the town, and through that connection he re- 
ceived an offer to become purchasing agent of the C. & A. R. R., 
and he has gone to Chicago in that capacity. I think he will do 
very well. 

J WILLIAM P. RIGGS, 

Real Estate, £ l 3 &*-**ve?&w* -*" 
9-l^«Eq«4tftble Buildiag-) Baltimore, Md. 
I will try to answer briefly and correctly the questions con- 
tained in the 7 85 circular. I was sorry not to be present at the 



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reunion, but was in Europe at the time, which also accounts for 
the delay in answering the circular letter sent me. 

2 and 3. Upon leaving college in 1885 I went to live in North- 
western Iowa, where my family had considerable land. I spent 
about ten years out there in the sale and improvement of the 
lands, and since then have made my home in Baltimore, looking 
after property in Maryland, District of Columbia, Wisconsin and 
Missouri, as well as our Iowa interests. 

I have traveled over most of the United States, except the Pa- 
cific Coast, and the only trip I have ever taken abroad has been 
the one from which I have just returned. I went to Europe on 
the yacht "Enterprise," going by way of the Azores, and landing 
at Southampton after about three weeks of sailing, during which 
period we had some very rough weather. I had a pleasant trip in 
Europe, visiting the Paris Exposition, besides England, Scotland, 
Ireland, Holland and Belgium. I returned in a rather different 
manner, coming on the record-breaking steamship "Deutsch- 
land," in 5 days 12 hours 29 minutes from Cherbourg. 

4. I am not married and can, I believe, truthfully say I am not 
near it. I regret the confession. 

5. I have never taken a very active part in politics, although I 
was Chairman of our County Committee when in Lyon County, 
Iowa, and my town there was Eock Rapids. I have always been 
a Democrat, although not a Bryan man. When in Iowa we met 
with some Democratic success, but the odds against us were too 
great, and when the free silver issue appeared we were simply 
"swamped." 

6. The positions of honor or trust that I have occupied have 
been of no great moment, consisting of winding up the affairs of 
some unfortunates and holding offices in social or sporting clubs, 
such as Baltimore Club, Baltimore Kennel Association and Mary- 
land Steeplechase Association. 



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7. We have several '85 men in Baltimore, and they are all doing 
well in their various positions or professions. I see them all oc- 
casionally. 

8. I have no suggestions to make about a reunion, but will try 
and attend any that may take place. 



<* A. F. ROBERTS. 

No address. 
Murray says he is in the real estate business in New York, and 
Brown once met him in Scranton. 

Rev. F. W. ROCHELLE, 
Chester, N. J. 

There are few things of as much interest as the announcements 
of the class. I often read them first and feel as if I had heard 
from "home." Four years together gives a personal interest in 
each member that will last a lifetime. Our intellectual activities 
have run out into the most divergent and varied, and often unex- 
pected, forms, but all roads lead back to Rome, where we got our 
intellects sharpened and fitted for the work before us, and a per- 
manent interest in the lives of some hundred and fifty of our 
fellows. I venture the opinion that the Class Record will be the 
best-read book in the library. I went from college into Prince- 
ton Seminary, where I studied two years and a half. My health 
failed and I was unable to finish the work. 

I was married March 3 of the succeeding year (1889) to Miss 
Maggie B. Titus, in Princeton. I attempted to finish my Semi- 
nary course later, but my health again failed and I was compelled 
to give it up. I have always regretted that I have not been able 
to spend all my time in distinctly Christian work. I have had to 
be out of doors a considerable part of my time and have gotten 
very strong. An out-of-door life of much physical activity is a 



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great enjoyment. I have been engaged for six years in the manu- 
facture of a hard rubber article. 

During the past three summers I have spent much time in a 
study of irrigation and of its effects upon some forms of plant 
life — carrying on the study for commercial purposes. I lived in 
Princeton until we moved to Chester three years ago. Our chil- 
dren are : Margaret, born December 26, 1889 ; Paul Ford, born 
December 4, 1893; Winfield P., born October 3, 1897; Helen 
Philips, born January 17, 1899. 

I seldom see any member of the class. I hope to get to the next 
reunion. 

JOHN P. EOOSA, Jr., 

Monticello, N. Y. 

After leaving Princeton I spent two years in New York at 
Columbia Law School, graduating in the class of 1887. The 
same year I was admitted to the bar at a General Term of the 
Supreme Court held at Binghamton, N. Y. I have practised law 
ever since at Monticello, N. Y., where I was married on June 25, 
1890. Have taken rather an active part in politics, and in 1889 
I was elected Special County Judge and Surrogate of Sullivan 
County, holding the office for three years. In 1895 I was elected 
District Attorney of the same county. This office I still hold, 
having been re-elected in 1898. For five years I have been Chair- 
man of the Eepublican County Committee of Sullivan County, 
and in June, 1900, was a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention at Philadelphia. I regret that I seldom run across 
any of the 1885 men, and the only suggestion I would offer re- 
garding a reunion is that it be not long delayed. When it is held, 
I shall most assuredly break any engagements I may have and be 
present. 



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P. A. SCHAKFF, 
No address. 
In June, 1900, Pershing said : He was teaching French in one 
or two private schools in Philadelphia. He was at one time at 
Cheltenham Academy. Afterward, abont two years ago, he went 
West. 



A. SCHENCK, 
No address. 
No report. 



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FEEDERIC W. SCOTT, 

1102 East Main Street, Eichmond, Va. 
Scott wrote before the reunion: I can't tell now whether 1 
can go to the reunion or not, but I am going to try. I am in one 
of those exciting vocations of life known as stock brokerage, and 
may not be able to leave business. But just to show my sympathy 
with the sentiments that influence the movement I am glad to 
contribute my check for $10 whenever you wish it, and hereafter, 
when I see my way more clearly, I may be able to get to the old 
town. I hear so little about Princeton nowadays that it will be 
like renewing my youth to go back and see all those Freshmen, 
having become stolid preachers, and professors, and doctors, and 
philosophers. I am not supposing, you will notice, that any '85 
men have been failures. 

Scott is married and has children. He has been a member of 
the following firms: Arrington & Scott, tobacconists, 1884-90; 
Thomas Branch & Co., bankers, 1889-91; Shelburne & Scott, 
tobacconists, 1893-95 ; W. A. Adams & Co., tobacconists, 1893-95 ; 
Scott & Stringfellow, bankers and brokers, 1893 to present. 



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HOWARD SCRIBNER, 

Care Fifth Avenue Coach Company, 

55-65 East 88th Street, New York City. 
The only word the Secretary has been able to get from Scribner 
is in a letter received before the reunion, which said : Enclosed 
please find check for $10. I hope the reunion will be a great 
success. 



J. B. SHEA, 




k Pittsburg Dry Goods Company, 
Pittsburg, Pa. 

In September, 1885, I went into the cashier's office of Joseph 
Home & Co. (wholesale dry goods), Pittsburg, where I worked 
until January, 1886, when I went to The Yulcan Forge and Iron 
Works of Long & Co., near Pittsburg, as shipping and receiving 
clerk. There I bossed men who knew more about iron than I did ; 
learned much, lived hard and got small pay until February, 1887. 
At that time the firm and I differed as to the value of my services, 
so I went back to dry goods. I started at the bottom, kept stock 
in every department, cleaned up and learned the business. When 
I had gone through it all, I was made superintendent at a fair 
salary. In 1893 the wholesale department of Home & Co. was 
formed into a stock company, under the name of The Pittsburg 
Dry Goods Company, and shortly after that I was made vice- 
president of said company. In 1898 the president resigned, and 
I was made president of the company. I am filling that position 
now, and expect to continue in it as long as I can make money for 
my stockholders. My travel has been mainly to fishing or hunting 
places in the United States, or to summering places, though I 
spent one winter in Nassau, N. P. (Bahamas), regaining health 
which I had lost from trying to do all the work of my company 
myself. I have never been in politics, nor do I ever expect to be. 
Heaven forbid. Have had too little time outside of my business 



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to accept any offices if they had been offered me. I did hustle for 
Princeton on the Alumni Association Board for ten years, and 
helped organize and run the University Club of Pittsburg. In 
1891 Miss Clara Bell Morgan became my wife, and we have two 
children living, both boys : C. Bernard, 2d, born December 25, 
1893, and Sidney Morgan, born January 6, 1899. Both are com- 
ing Princetonians. The most exciting as well as interesting event 
in my life since graduation was connected with the Johnstown 
flood, the cause of which, viz., the bursting of the South Fork 
Dam, I saw ; was one of the first outsiders to see the stricken city 
the next morning, and being recognized as a South Fork Club 
man, was in danger of violence. So I quickly left. 




ALFEED B. SHERWOOD, / % / f G 

Washington, D. C. 
His home address for a time was Scotchtown, N. Y. At one 
time he taught in Newark. He is now said to have a position in 

Washington. 

SICKELS, 



No address. 
No report. 

A. C. SMITH, 

Lawykb> 

31 NassarrStreet, New York City. 
Just before the reunion Smith wrote: I find that pressing 
business necessitates my presence in the far West during the 
next month, and consequently I will not be able to attend our 
reunion at Princeton during Commencement Week, but wish you 
all a good time and enclose my check for $10 to help it along. 

Later, in answer to the specific questions, he wrote : I see no 
particular use in filling out above inquiries. I have neither the 



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time nor the desire to do so, having nothing particular to tell 
about myself that will interest any member of the class. Since 
my last report, made out two years ago, I think, nothing new has 
happened, except one addition to my family. I am still a lawyer, 
still married and have three children. 

B.B. SMITH, ^ 

No address. /6/9 fo.r-t/^^f. ^' 
No report. 

/ C. H. SMITH, 

303 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Was a Sergeant in the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry. 
Previous to the Spanish War he had served in the City Troop for 
six years, and was an active member of that body when the war 
broke out. He enlisted with the Troop and served with it in Porto 
Rico. 

; E. L. SMITH, 

Trenton, N.J. *•■**&• 

No report. 

ROBERT L. SMITH, 

No. 509 South Street, Appleton, Wis. 

Have been in banking, real estate and loaning business in Wis- 
consin, Minnesota, Dakota and Washington. 

F. H. SPEER, 

Thomas and Linden Avenues, Pittsburg, Pa. 
In June Shea said : I saw him about a year and a half ago. He 
was or had been in the business of building houses. 



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c. e. spence, yr^ 

SflCOTm View. PtifirtfefflT>frFiMrpr uttttp Trust and Deposit 

Company, 
Baltimore, Md. 

As you are aware, I was always a poor talker, and, if possible, I 
am a worse writer. It is for this reason that I have so long de- 
layed answering your letter. 

From the day after my return to Baltimore, in June, '85, 1 have 
been constantly at work. I was at that time offered a junior 
clerkship with the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of 
Baltimore, a then baby corporation about starting its business 
career. It has grown to be probably the largest trust company 
south of New York, and I have grown along with it, not to be the 
biggest man south of New York, but to hold the position of its 
second vice-president. 

Nothing eventful occurred in my life after leaving college until 
April, '98, when I took unto myself a wife, and am now the proud 
father of a son and heir, eighteen months old. 

Now in answer to your questions : 

2. I have lived in Baltimore ever since my graduation. I have 
traveled very little, and with the exception of a trip to the Pacific 
Coast in ; 92 have not been away from the office for more than two 
weeks at a time. In ? 92 four of the Riggs boys and I went out 
through the Yellowstone and home by the Canadian Pacific. A 
most glorious trip it was. 

4. I was married at Catonsville, Baltimore County, on April 
23, 1898, to Miss Elizabeth Hanson James. I have one child, a 
boy, born March 27, 1899, and as I could think of no more distin- 
guished name, I, or at least the parson, christened him Charles 
Reid, Jr. 

5. I have taken no active part in politics, except, though born 
and bred a Democrat, to vote twice for McKinley. Until Bryan 



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and his heresies are eradicated from the Democratic party, I pro- 
pose to vote the Republican ticket. 

6. I have been connected in one way or another with the Na- 
tional Guard of this State ever since my graduation. At present 
I have the honor of serving as Chief Quartermaster, with the rank 
of Major, on the staff of Brigadier-General Lawrason Riggs. 

7. I see quite a little of Fisher, Gamble and Riggs. Fisher is 
an expert engineer, and is doing very well. Gamble is a practising 
physician, and a remarkably good one. He has doctored me on 
several occasions. Riggs is always busy, but as yet I have failed to 
ascertain at what. He has lost no flesh and weighs probably 350 
pounds, more or less. Gaither, '85, is also a practising physician, 
but I very rarely, if ever, run across him. 

8. I have no suggestions to make as to our next reunion, except 
that it be conducted on the same successful lines as the last, and 
by all means engage the same band. 

I think I have covered all your questions, if not graphically, at 
least truthfully. Best wishes for you and all the old class of '85. 

A. L. STAVELY, M.D., 

1234 Fourteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
I am engaged in the practise of medicine. Upon leaving 
Princeton I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I 
graduated in medicine. During my third year, with and without 
the assistance of that arch politician, "Bombey" Wilbur, I was 
elected president of the class. After graduation I went to Read- 
ing, Pa., and became an interne in the City Hospital. A year later 
I received an appointment as interne to the Episcopal Hospital, 
Philadelphia. Before I had completed my service there I was 
appointed resident gynecologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 
Baltimore, where I remained three years. Subsequently I ac- 
cepted the position of superintendent of the Garfield Hospital, 
Washington, where I stayed over two years. Upon resigning to 



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take up private practise, I was appointed a member of the visiting 
etaff of the hospital. I have been elected to various medical socie- 
ties. My professional success has been satisfactory, though its 
character might have been more "howling." I am not married. 
Politics has not interested me particularly. In fact, on account of 
living in the District of Columbia I have not cast a vote for over 
eight years. I see very few '85 men. Brickenstein lives in Wash- 
ington and holds a very important position in the United States 
Patent Office. 

WILLIAM DE W. STERRY, 

79 Pine Street, New York City. 

I am doing fairly well. Not married. Have done some foreign 
travel since I parted with the men of '85 on that the day of days 
in June, 1885. I am and have been since January, '86, in business 
with my father. 

Kind regards to all '85 men. They were the last Freshmen to 
sit in the "old chapel." They were, truly speaking, the last class 
"old Jimmy" turned out of the old chapel. 

JONATHAN STURGES, J^Ck^JU *JUb - 

England (m 36 Park Avenue, New York City). 
Sturges is a litterateur and resides in England. He has written 
several books. 

GEORGE E. SWARTZ, 
S^vCCfcu Ibitf -No. 8 81 Unity Building, Chicago, 111. 

I am much pleased to hear of the success of the recent '85 re- 
union. Regret that I could not be present to participate in the 
6ame, and once again greet old friends and fellow-members of '85. 

Chicago has been my residence since leaving college, with the 
exception of a few months during the years of 1885 and 18S6. 
Am engaged in the practise of law. Am yet a bachelor. Have 



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never taken any very active part in politics. I occasionally see 
William B. Mcllvaine. He is practising law in this city. In this 
he is attaining as much success and doing himself as much credit 
as he did in his college work in the days of old '85. 

Prof. HENEY DALLAS THOMPSON, 

Princeton, N. J. 
After being a Fellow of Princeton and of the Johns Hopkins 
University, I studied in Goettingen for two years. In 1889 I 
received the degree of D.Sc. from Princeton, and in 1892 the 
degree of Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen. From Sep- 
tember, 1888, to the present time I have taught mathematics at 
Princeton. I have been three times to California, once to Alaska, 
three times to Europe. I am not married. I have voted; with 
this exception I have done nothing political. 

^ HENEY H. THOEP, M.D., 

74 West 69th Street, New York City. 
On leaving Princeton (honorable dismissal, junior year), I 
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. 
Graduated '90; won the St. Luke's Hospital appointment '91-93, 
serving the regular time; on leaving appointed to Nursery and 
Child's Hospital, serving six months as assistant physician. Be- 
gan practise of medicine in New York City in '93. On outbreak 
of Spanish War enlisted as trooper in K Troop, 1st U. S. Vol. 
Cavalry (Eough Eiders), serving as trooper through fighting to 
July 2; then transferred to Hospital Corps till about July 10, 
when promoted to Acting Assistant Surgeon, rank of First Lieu- 
tenant, serving till mustered out at Montauk, L. I., September, 
1 898. Then returned to practise at present address. 

2. Have traveled in France, Switzerland, New Mexico, Texas, 
California, Santiago, Cuba. 

3. Occupation has been that of physician and surgeon. 



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4. Not married. 

5. Have not taken active part in politics. 

6. Have been house surgeon St. Luke's Hospital, assistant 
physician Nursery and Child's, clinical assistant Post-Graduate 
Hospital, assistant surgeon Columbus Hospital, chief of clinic 
Post-Graduate Hospital, assistant (?) service of Prof. B. F. 
Curtis, M.D. ; committee Eough Eiders, Acting Assistant Surgeon 
1st U. S. Vol. Cavalry, etc., etc. 



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HENRY P. TOLER, 

Mills Building, New York City. 
Has been and is a broker. Has lived in New Jersey and New 
York. Present residence is 22 West Forty-eighth Street, New 
York. Was married in New York and has two children : Dorothy 
P., eleven years old; Henry P., Jr., eight years old. Answers 
questions 5 and 6 in the negative. The papers record his golf 
playing. 



. M. TREE, j®4^ 

Warwickshire, England. 
No report. 





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GEORGE URQUHART, 

Real Estate Trust Company Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 
The following is reprinted from a recent newspaper clipping: 
One of the more distinguished among the younger members of the 
legal profession in Philadelphia is Mr. George Urquhart, who 
was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was admitted to the Wilkes- 
barre bar in 1887, and at once began the active practise of his pro- 
fession, which he has since continued with constantly increasing 
success. While at Wilkesbarre, among his numerous cases, he was 



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one of counsel for Sheriff Martin, of Luzerne County, and fifty- 
6even deputies held for killing strikers at Lattimer in the coal 
mine riots in 1897, and was also for a number of years a member 
of the board of examiners of law students for Luzerne County. 
Seeking a wider field, Mr. Urquhart came to Philadelphia last 
fall and located in the Eeal Estate Trust Company Building, and 
has recently been invited to write a series of leading articles for 
The Central Law Journal, the leading law journal of this coun- 
try. It may also be added that he was associated with the Attor- 
ney General in the conduct of the case of The Banking Depart- 
ment of Pennsylvania against The Penn Germania Building and 
Loan Association. Mr. Urquhart is a lawyer of exceptional 
ability and attainments and possesses in a high degree the legal 
acumen which enables him to grasp the finer points and turn them 
to the advantage of his client. He is engaged in an active general 
• practise and devotes especial attention to corporation law, being 
counsel for a number of leading corporations. He has already 
distinguished himself by the ability and fidelity with which he 
handles all matters entrusted to his care, and enjoys in the highest 
sense the confidence and esteem of his fellow-members at the bar, 
who have predicted for him a most brilliant future. 

CHARLES VAN AUSDAL, 
J Dayton, Ohio. 

No report. 

x Judge JOHN G. VAN ETTEN, 

Kingston, N. Y. 
The following are the answers to the questions contained in 
your favor of the 17th inst. : 

1. Kingston, N. Y. 

2. Kingston, N. Y. 



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3. Attorney-at-law. 

4. Married Anna M. North, October 30, 1888. No children. 

5. In 1895 Democratic nominee for District Attorney of Ulster 
County; defeated by 857, the Republicans carrying Ulster County 
by 2,073 for the head of the ticket; 1896, delegate to New York 
State Democratic Convention at Saratoga; 1896, delegate from 
Eighteenth Congressional District of New York at Democratic 
National Convention at Chicago. In 1898 elected County Judge 
of Ulster County on the Democratic ticket by a majority of 447, 
the Republican candidate for Governor, Theodore Roosevelt, car- 
rying Ulster County by 1,505. 

6. From 1893 to 1898, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant 
and Captain of Fourteenth Separate Company, N. G. S. N. Y. 

7. Saw Austin in Los Angeles, Cal., in 1886. 



S^ W. S. VAUGHAN, 
Richmond, Ind. 
No report. 



y RODMAN WANAMAKER, 

13th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 
After graduation I became a member of the firm of John Wana- 
maker, and have remained a partner ever since. I resided in Paris 
for a number of years as the foreign representative of the firm. 
I have never taken any part in politics, nor have I ever held a 
political office. I am at present living in Philadelphia. The '85 
men of whom I see most are Miles, Dickey and Brown, and many 
are the good old talks we have concerning the old days ot 
Princeton. 



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Deposit Bank Building, Owensboro, Ky. 



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Before the reunion Weir wrote : I can't come on in June. I 
think your plan is very nice and you can count me as one of the 
least among the subscribers ; that is, one of the ten at $5 per man. 
You can have the $5 whenever you want it, or, as there's no use 
bothering about it again, I'll enclose check now. Hope some of 
you will think of me during the reunion. If I make a "killing" 
at the Kentucky Derby I may come. 

The last Eecord's account will do for this one. 

Rev. JAMES McIVER WICKER, 

3442 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
When I am lost, strayed, stolen or stranded, you may find me 
by writing to Sanf ord, N. C. My present occupation is fighting 
the world, the flesh and the devil. Big contract for small pay. 
Since leaving Princeton I have resided at Shenandoah, Pa. ; Edge 
Hill, Pa., and Philadelphia. My traveling in this country has 
consisted in going to North Carolina about once a year. I speut 
the summer of 1886 in Nova Scotia. Went as a commissioner to 
the Presbyterian General Assembly, near Warsaw, Ind., May, 
1897. Went to Europe in the summer of 1890. I was married 
at Roslyn Cottage, near Cumnock, N. C, October 1, 1891. My 
children are : Caroline Gilmour, born September 10, 1892 ; Elea- 
nor Catherine, born January 11, 1894 (died November 21, 1894) ; 
Frances Willard, born January 22, 1896, and Margaret Mclver, 
born July 7, 1900. Have had nothing to do with politics. I am 
not a Parkhurst. Have never sought honors, consequently have 
received none. I occasionally see Bayard, Kelley and Rod. Wana- 
maker. 

WILLIAM LANE WILBUR, M.D., 

Hightstown, N. J. 
Graduated from the medical department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1888. Since that time has been practising medi- 



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cine in Hightstown. Was elected a member of the New Jersey 
Legislature for two terms, sessions of 1894 and 1895. During 
both terms he was Chairman of the Educational Committee. 

EDMUND WILSON, 

Eed Bank, N. J. 

In June, 1900, after giving much interesting information about 
absent men, he said: I am very glad indeed to be here. This 
reunion seems to me to be ideal, and it certainly is the most de- 
lightful gathering we have had since graduation. This I think is 
largely due to the discreet, judicious and considerate management 
of the gentlemen who have so kindly assumed this burden. I 
think that such meetings as this will hereafter be much sought for 
by the members of the class. Speaking for myself, very little has 
happened which is eventful. My life has been a busy one, and I 
think I have been requited in various ways as much as I deserve. 
My business has been that of a lawyer, as most of you know, and 
my residence is Eed Bank, N. J. 

During the Presidential campaign, in the autumn, Ed spoke 
on the political issue to the students of Princeton University and 
the inhabitants of Princeton, in Alexander Hall. 

EDWARD S. WOOD, 

140 East State Street, Trenton, N. J. 
Since leaving college I have taken a three years' course at the 
University of Pennsylvania law department, at the end of which 
I was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and later passed another 
examination for admittance to the New Jersey bar. My residence 
and office are still at Trenton, N. J. Have traveled to some extent 
at home and abroad during the summer months. Am connected 
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Alumni Association of Trenton, composed of about ninety Prince- 
ton men, and also the Trenton Country Club, of each of which I 
am treasurer, a position mostly of labor. Am also a trustee of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of this place. 

WILLIAM EDWIN WOODEND, M.D., 

58 West 71st Street, New York City. 
Is said to be the physician for several large companies. 

CHARLES E. WYLIE, M.D., 

558 High Street, Pottstown, Pa. 
Was in business for some time, and prospering. Decided to 
study medicine, so came to Philadelphia and took his degree, and 
is now a physician in Pottstown, and connected with the "Hill 
School." 



i-REY. GEORGE D. YOUNG, 

V 111 Temple Street, Owego, Tioga County, N. Y. 

Your circular letter for class of '85, Princeton, was duly re- 
ceived. Though quite tardy, I send the information desired. My 
residence is as above, not Oswego, and my occupation is that of a 
minister. Am pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this village. 
After leaving Princeton I spent some time in New York City, 
then entered class of '87, New York University. Graduated with 
honors. Spent two years in business in New York City. Moved 
to Richmond, Va., and was for five years in the employ of the 
Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works. In the fall of '94 I 
entered Princeton Seminary, and graduated in due time with the 
class of '97 and came directly here. Was married December 22, 
1886, and have one son, born December 21, 1887. Have seen and 
heard nothing of any '85 men during all these years. 



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NECROLOGICAL 

JOHN MOESE AUSTIN. 

Letters sent to Los Angeles returned marked : Deceased. 

RICHAED HENRY APPLEBY. Died November (2?), 1888. 
Ed. Wilson and Jackson were at the funeral at Old Bridge, 
N.J. 

WILLIAM SEBASTIAN GRAFF BAKER, Jr. 

Died June 1, 1897. 

The Baltimore Sun of June 22, 1897, says : 

The remains of W. S. Graff Baker, Jr., who died after a brief 
illness of pneumonia, June 1, at his home, in London, England, 
arrived in New York by the steamer Massachusetts, of the Atlan- 
tic Transport Line, and will be buried from the chapel in Green- 
mount Cemetery to-morrow at 4 P. M. 

Mr. Baker was the second son of W. S. G. Baker, of Wyndhurst, 
Baltimore County. He was born in Baltimore and educated at 
the University School and at Princeton. He married Miss Grace 
N. Carey, daughter of Mr. Henry G. Carey, and became a resident 
of London in 1888, where he has since lived. 

Interested in electrical engineering, Mr. Baker was a member 
of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, managing director of the 
Electric and General Contracting Company of London, and con- 
sulting engineer to the electric department of the Great Northern 
Railway. 

He assisted in carrying out the electrical equipment of the Cov- 
entry, the Douglas Southern and the Round Bay Park of Leeds 
/ tramway companies. 
V JOHN BENNETT BISSELL. 

Died at Elizabeth ( ?) in July or August ( ?), 1897. 

Was at Harvard for one year. Then read law in Charleston. 
Was employed by a firm of lawyers in New York. Was married 
in 1888, in Elizabeth, N. J., and resided there for a time at least. 



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EDWAED KING BLADES. 

Died near Los Angeles ( ?), Cal., in 1898 ( ?). 
He had lived in Los Angeles, and was married. He accidentally 
shot himself, and died soon afterward. 

ALEXANDER BUTLER ERNST. Died April 21, 1896. 

LUTHER WEEKS FROST. Died before 1888. 

Was ill scarcely two weeks with a slight attack of typhoid fever. 
Suddenly he sank so rapidly that death ensued within the hour. 

WALTER BRYANT HEAD. 

Died July 10, 1886, at Allegheny, Pa., of consumption. 



/ MORRIS ZWINGLI HITTEL. Died in 1887. 



SANFORD NORRIS KNAPP. 

Died August 27, 1886, at Peekskill, N. Y. 
After graduation, Knapp returned to Princeton to study for the 
degree of civil engineer. He was progressing so rapidly that he 
would probably have received this degree in February, 1887. But 
he was taken ill in the spring of 1886, and after a lingering illness 
of four months he died at his home. 

WILLIAM HENRY ROBINSON. Died July 11, 1896. 

In 1893 failing health compelled him to resign the pastorate 
of his church in Kansas and return to his home at Cambridge, 
N. Y. He was married and had children. 

EDWARD CLARKE STEERS. Died in 1883. 

HOWARD PAYSAN TRASK. 

Died May 19, 1890, in New York City. 



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THOMAS CHALMERS UMSTED. 

Died October 23, 1900, in Delaware City, Del. 

He was born at Faggs Manor, Chester County, Pa., October 10, / 
1862, and died in Delaware City, Del., October 23, 1900. 

He received his education at the West Nottingham Academy, 
Maryland, and at Princeton College, after which he studied law 
with E. Coppee Mitchell, of Philadelphia, and at the same time 
entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, from 
which he was graduated. He was admitted to the Philadelphia 
bar in June, 1886. 

In the fall of the same year Mr. Umsted moved to Wilkesbarre, 
where he was admitted to the bar December 6. Here he resided 
until a short time before his death. 

Mr. Umsted's business was confined principally to the civil 
courts, the law of real estate, and the safe investment of capital, 
in which department he was singularly successful, possessing also 
a wide reputation as an expert in questions of land law. 

With several others, Mr. Umsted was much interested in pro- 
viding fine reading rooms for the young people of Wilkesbarre 
who lived remote from the library, and gave much valuable time 
and thought to the establishment of one in North Wilkesbarre. 
He was secretary of the Eeading Room Association until his fail- 
ing health obliged him to resign, much to the regret of his asso- 
ciates. 

On January 1, 1891, Mr. Umsted married Miss Katharine 
Scott Moore, of Wilkesbarre. 

He leaves one child, Thomas Scott Umsted, born April 27, 
1892. 

CALVIN WIGHT. Died July 11, 1899. 

Left college for some time on account of ill health, then re- 
turned and graduated in the class of 1892. After studying 
theology in Chicago and Princeton, he went as a missionary to 
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F. H. WILSON. 

It is thought the he died in Colorado some years before 1897. 
Bayard remembers seeing notice to that effect in the Philadelphia 
papers. 

FRANK STILES WOODRUFF. 

Died May 26, 1893, at Elizabeth, N. J. 

The story of Frank S. Woodruffs earthly life is a short one, 
complete in a single volume. He was older than the rest of us in 
character, and we loved to call him "Pop," not merely in sport but 
because he possessed certain qualities of manly dignity and judg- 
ment that called forth our respect and deepened our admiration. 

In the summer of '85 he and Beattie started East together, 
traveling over parts of Europe, and reached Beirut, Syria, in time 
to commence teaching there in the autumn. Frank was teacher 
of English in the Syrian Protestant College for three years, and 
then came home as he had planned and spent the next three years 
fitting himself for the ministry in the Seminary at Princeton. 

Here he was the same old tower of strength to the men that he 
had been on the other side of the campus, only the tower was 
stronger and easier of access than in college days. Woodruff 
ripened early. His manliness was not that of a manly boy, but of 
a man. His religion and its influence was both manly and ma- 
ture. In the Benham Club of the Seminary he was made "Chief" 
because he was already chief. 

After graduation he started again for Beirut to serve perma- 
nently as Professor of English in the College. For nearly two 
years he held this position, but before the end of the first year the 
disease which at last exhausted him made itself manifest. 
Friends and physicians allied with him and fought for his life, 
and in the spring of ? 93 he sailed for America. Weak and worn 
he reached his old home, and when after two weeks of patient 
suffering consumption had done its work, Elizabeth united to do 
him honor. No man among us has more fitly lived. 

R. H. B. 



